What dhikr and du'a are said after the obligatory prayer?

Allah says: "And when you have completed the prayer, remember Allah standing, sitting, and lying on your sides" (Qur'an 4:103). When the Prophet ﷺ finished the prayer he would seek forgiveness three times ("astaghfirullāh") and say: "Allāhumma anta al-salām wa minka al-salām, tabārakta yā dhā al-jalāli wa'l-ikrām" (Muslim 591). He would also say after the taslīm: "Lā ilāha illa'llāhu waḥdahu lā sharīka lah, lahu'l-mulku wa lahu'l-ḥamd, wa huwa ʿalā kulli shayʾin qadīr. Allāhumma lā māniʿa limā aʿṭayt…" (Muslim 593, al-Bukhārī 844). And he said: "Whoever glorifies Allah thirty-three times, praises Him thirty-three times and magnifies Him thirty-three times after every prayer — that is ninety-nine — and completes the hundred with 'lā ilāha illa'llāhu waḥdahu lā sharīka lah, lahu'l-mulku wa lahu'l-ḥamd, wa huwa ʿalā kulli shayʾin qadīr,' his sins are forgiven even if they were like the foam of the sea" (Muslim 597). ʿUqbah ibn ʿĀmir said: "The Messenger of Allah ﷺ commanded me to recite the muʿawwidhāt after every prayer" (al-Nasāʾī 1336, Abū Dāwūd 1523 — ṣaḥīḥ), and reciting Āyat al-Kursī after each obligatory prayer is likewise narrated (al-Nasāʾī in al-Sunan al-Kubrā / ʿAmal al-Yawm wa'l-Laylah, graded ṣaḥīḥ by al-Albānī). The Sunnah is that each person says these adhkār himself; scholars have criticised reciting them in unison as one voice.

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