What is the authenticity of the supplication: "My God, how can I call upon You when I am who I am, and how can I sever my hope when You are who You are? My God, if I do not ask You to give me, then who is there whom I can ask to give me? And if I do not supplicate You to answer me, then who is there whom I can ask to answer me? And if I do not humble myself before You to have mercy on me, then who is there before whom I can humble myself to have mercy on me? ... My God, just as You parted the seas for Moses and saved him from drowning, so send Your prayers and peace, O Lord, upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad, and save me from the distress I am in ... with an urgent, not delayed, relief, by Your mercy, O Most Merciful of the merciful ... Amen," which is designated to be recited 100 times after two rak'ahs of prayer in the last third of the night?
What you mentioned about performing two rak'ahs of prayer and then supplicating after them at a specific time was not reported from Ali Zayn al-Abidin or anyone else. There is no evidence for its permissibility. Performing it constitutes a specific act of worship in a particular manner without religious proof, and this falls under the category of an added innovation (bid'ah idafiyyah), because all goodness lies in following the Sunnah and evil in innovation. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "Whoever introduces into this matter of ours that which is not from it, then it is rejected."
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