The Ruling on Gathering for Supplication and Reciting the Qur'an Occasionally

Question:
There is a group that sometimes gathers to recite the Qur'an, and sometimes to recite a hadith. Some of them ask for supplication, and they do not make it a continuous habit, nor do they believe it is a sunnah (recommended practice). Sometimes they say to one of them, "Supplicate to Allah, O so-and-so," and he supplicates while they say "Ameen." So he rebuked them, and it was said that this is a bid'ah (religious innovation). Is this a valid bid'ah?

Answer:
I do not know of anything wrong with it. I say, based on what I know, if they have not adopted specific, regular supplications or anything of the sort, but rather they simply gather for dhikr (remembrance of Allah) and reciting the Qur'an, or for studying hadith or discussing some of the issues that concern them, and then one of them says, "Supplicate to Allah for us" or "Supplicate to your Lord," and it is not something arranged or fixed, then there is nothing wrong with it.