ANSWER:

Yes.

It’s an innovation to make dua after salah as well.

It’s an innovation to raise the hands and make dua after salah.

If you make the dua after salah, individually, once in a blue moon without raising hands, it’s OK but you must not make it a habit as this is the time for doing the prescribed dhikr and you should make dua in your sujood and in the last tashahud before making Salam.

In my country a lot of muslims wipe their face with their hands after offering salaam in prayer (both sunnah and fard). Is this an innovation?

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