Is it permissible to persist in supplication after praying two rak'ahs following the adhan?

Question:
May Allah reward you, Honorable Shaykh. This is Salim, and he says: I have become accustomed to praying two rak'ahs after the adhan, then sitting in the position of tashahhud, and then I supplicate to Allah. I do this almost constantly. The question is that someone objected to this, saying that I should supplicate at the end of the tashahhud in the prayer I performed. Is his objection correct? Please note that this situation has lasted for more than two months, and since then I have stopped supplicating in the manner I had been doing, out of fear that my action is a bid'ah (religious innovation). So please issue a ruling for us, and may Allah reward you.

Answer:
This statement is not correct. You may supplicate in prayer and outside of prayer. You may supplicate to Allah in voluntary and obligatory prayers, and outside of prayer. The time between the adhan and the iqamah is one of the times in which the acceptance of supplication is hoped for. The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Supplication is not rejected between the adhan and the iqamah." So supplicate to Allah in your voluntary prayer, and supplicate to Allah after it until the iqamah is called, and you are on the right path, and praise be to Allah. Yes.