As for the custom found in some lands where people engage in a collective supplication after the obligatory prayers—raising their voices and their hands together, or where the imam supplicates aloud while the congregation, with uplifted hands, respond with “Āmīn”—this practice is a deplorable innovation. No report shows that the Prophet ever, after leading the people in prayer, made duʿāʾ in this fashion: not after Fajr, not after ʿAṣr, nor after any other prayer. None of the recognized imams deemed it commendable, either.

Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah said: “Whoever attributes this practice to Imām al-Shāfiʿī is mistaken. One must restrict himself to what has come from the Prophet in this and every other matter, for Allah the Exalted says, ‘So take whatever the Messenger gives you and refrain from whatever he forbids you; and fear Allah—indeed, Allah is severe in punishment’ (59:7). He, Most High, also says, ‘Indeed, in the Messenger of Allah you have an excellent example for whoever hopes for Allah and the Last Day and remembers Allah much’ (33:21).”