Asking the dead to make dua and making dua through waseela
Q:
1. Is it permissible to ask a dead person to make dua to Allah on our behalf?
2. Is it permissible to make dua like this: “O Allah I ask you through the waseela of Nabi Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) and the pious people’ and ‘O Allah I ask you through the easels of your attributes and the Quran’?