Nom, sheker gamur; that talmid chochom was trying to get rebe chiyah to forgive him for his act of looking at his seat in the Yeshiva shel maalah. He didn’t say “please heal me” – look at the maharsha there; he was davening to Hashem that he should be healed through asking for forgiveness and by learning.
He, and no one else, has ever, and will never ask a dead person to help them in any way, shape or form.
And constantly repeating why this makes no difference to you makes me think it actually is a big deal to you.