The Ruling on Raising the Hands in Supplication After Prayer

Question:
The questioner : Shaykh, raising the hands after the obligatory prayer, and supplication, Shaykh, after the obligatory prayer.?

Answer:
Raising the hands after the obligatory prayer for supplication is a religious innovation (bid'ah). Whoever raises his hands after the obligatory prayer, and the imam or the followers supplicate, has no basis for this; this is a religious innovation (bid'ah). As for the voluntary prayer, if one does it occasionally.

Question: Not after the obligatory prayer?

Answer: This is not permissible; because it is a religious innovation (bid'ah) after the obligatory prayer.