The ruling on facing the qiblah in supplication.

The questioner : Shaykh, what is the ruling on facing the qiblah in supplication; is it a recommended practice or a religious innovation? Knowing that there is a hadith in Muslim about a man who was not facing the qiblah and began to curse them until his cloak fell off, so Abu Bakr returned it to him and said: "O Messenger of Allah, indeed Allah will fulfill what He has promised you," and he was facing the qiblah; is the intention to face the qiblah taken from this hadith?

The Shaykh : That is what appears to be the case, because Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah have mercy on him) says: "One does not face [the qiblah] in supplication except for what one faces in prayer."