He was also asked:

Is reciting the Verse of the Throne after every prayer in congregation recommended or not? What was the practice of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, concerning prayer, and what is meant by his words, “after every prayer”?

He answered:

Praise be to Allah. A hadith has been reported concerning reciting the Verse of the Throne after prayer, but it is weak. For this reason, none of the compilers of the authoritative collections reported it, and no ruling of Islamic law can be established on its basis.

The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, his Companions and his successors did not recite the Verse of the Throne, or any other passage of the Quran, aloud after prayer. For the imam and those praying behind him to recite it aloud and maintain this practice is undoubtedly a blameworthy innovation. This amounts to instituting a new ritual observance. It is comparable to someone introducing the regular practice of the imam and congregation reciting aloud al-Fātihah, the closing verses of al-Baqarah, the opening verses of al-Hadīd or the closing verses of al-Hashr. It is also comparable to the imam and congregation regularly gathering to perform two units of prayer after the obligatory prayer, and similar practices that are undoubtedly innovations.

But if the imam recites the Verse of the Throne to himself, or one of those praying behind him recites it, there is nothing wrong with that. Reciting it is a righteous deed, and this involves no alteration to the rites of