Do you agree that Prophets are better than Shuhdah???
God says in Quran “you have no idea of their lives” so we shouldn’t be assuming things about that.
Not the prophets.
**Other supporting evidence for the hadith is found in what Abu Dawud transmits regarding the hadith of Abu Hurayra, which contains, �Pray for me, for surely, your prayers reach me wherever you are.� It’s chain of narrators is rigorously authenticated. Abu Al-Shaykh transmits it in Kitab Al-Thawab with a good chain of narrators with the wording, �Whoever prays for me at my grave, I hear him, and whoever prays for me remotely, it is imparted to me.� Ibn Khuzayma and others have rigorously authenticated what is in Abu Dawud and Al-Nasa’i, on the authority Aws Ibn Aws (who promotes it), regarding the virtue of Friday, �’Increase in your prayers for me in it, for truly, your prayers are presented before me.’ They said, ‘Oh Messenger of Allah, how will our prayers be presented before you when you have decomposed?’ He said, 'Allah has forbidden the earth to consume the bodies of prophets.'� **
Are prophets alive in their graves?
No one prays to prophets or aulia…may be a few who are ignorant. You are right we should only pray to Allah but we can also pray to Allah through His names, our good deeds, Prophet Muhammad(SAW) and pious people.