Ibn Majah

Benefits and Issues:
To ask any created being for something that is solely within Allah’s power is to worship that created being, and therefore it is shirk (associating partners with Allah).
Whether that created being is an inanimate object such as a stone, the sun, stars, trees, etc., or a living being such as an animal, jinn, angel, saint (wali), or prophet (nabi), to request anything from them in a manner that transcends natural means is shirk.

Explanation:
1:
Your Lord has said:
Call upon Me; I will respond to your supplication.
Those who, out of arrogance, turn away from My worship (supplication), they will enter Hell in humiliation.
(al-Mu’min: 60)

Explanation:
1:
Your Lord says,
"Call upon Me,
I will respond to your call (supplication).
Those who are arrogant about asking Me,
they will enter Hell in humiliation and disgrace." (: al-Mu’min: 6)

Explanation:
1:
And your Lord has commanded: "Call upon Me; I will respond to your supplications. Indeed, those who are too proud to worship Me will soon enter Hell in humiliation." (: al-Mu’min: 60)

1479. Commentary: When supplication (dua) is worship, then supplicating to other than Allah is shirk (associating partners with Allah). Therefore, commonly uttered phrases such as "Ya Rasul Allah," "Ya Ali," "Ya Husayn," "Ya Ghawth," etc., making supplications or raising slogans in this manner, or writing and hanging their emblems, is clear shirk. And it is obligatory to avoid these. It is incumbent upon the scholars of truth to continuously make the public aware of the importance and sensitivity of the issue of tawhid (the oneness of Allah).

Takhrij:
«أخرجه أبوداود، الصلاة، باب الدعاء، حديث:1479، والترمذي، تفسير القرآن، حديث:3247، وابن ماجه، الدعاء، حديُ:3828، والنسائي، في الكبرٰي:6 /450، حديث:11464، "الدعاءمخ العبادة" أخرجه الترمذي، الدعوات، حديث:3371 وسنده ضعيف، وليد بن مسلم وشيخه عنعنا، "ليس شيء أكرم علي الله من الدعاء "أخرجه الترمذي، الدعوات، حديث:3370، وابن حبان (الموارد)، حديث:2397، والحاكم:1 /490، وصححه، ووافقه الذهبي، وسنده ضعيف، قتادة عنعن.»©Explanation:
➊ Our esteemed researcher has declared the narrations reported from Anas and Abu Hurairah (radi Allahu anhuma) to be weak in terms of their chain of transmission, whereas other scholars have, on the basis of corroborating reports, considered the narration from Abu Hurairah (radi Allahu anhu) to be hasan (good), and have discussed this narration in detail. From this, it becomes evident that the hadith reported from Abu Hurairah (radi Allahu anhu) is of the hasan grade due to supporting evidence, and this opinion appears to be closer to correctness.
And Allah knows best.
For further details, see: (Al-Mawsu‘ah al-Hadithiyyah, Musnad al-Imam Ahmad: 14/360, 361; and Mishkat by Al-Albani, Second Verification, No. 232)

➋ In this hadith, supplication (du‘a) has been declared as worship (‘ibadah).
This means that supplications made to other than Allah for the fulfillment of needs and the resolution of difficulties are, in effect, worship of other than Allah. For this reason, supplicating to other than Allah is shirk (associating partners with Allah).