Question 1: Is it an innovation to pray more than eleven raka'at as the Prophet stated?
I'm aware that it is the opinion of some scholars that praying over 11 raka'at is an innovation. Their evidence is based on the hadith of A'isha (رضي الله عنها) that the Prophet (ﷺ) never went over eleven raka'at ...
We go back in history to 1862 where a young boy of a poor household was born in a town controlled by the Uthmany Khilafa. This young man was brought under the care and tutelage of one of the Shuyookh in his home town when he was at the ripe age of 16 after the death of his father.