What is the response to those who say that the night prayer in the mosque is a religious innovation (bid'ah)?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, the questioner asks: How do we respond to those who say that returning to the night prayer in congregation in the mosque during the last part of the night is a religious innovation (bid'ah), given that he memorizes the Qur'an in the ten canonical recitations, and he says, "Give me evidence for that"?

Answer:
This is what he wants: he wants to pray, and he wants to sleep. Let him sleep, that is his choice. As for him saying it is a religious innovation (bid'ah), he is a liar; it is not a religious innovation (bid'ah). The Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him), when the last ten nights entered, would gird himself and tighten his waistband, and he would wake up his family. When the last ten nights entered, he would not sleep. In one narration, it is said he did not taste sleep.
So the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) would pray and perform the late-night voluntary prayer (tahajjud), and the Salaf (the earliest generations) would perform the late-night voluntary prayer (tahajjud) in the last ten nights until the end of the night, to the point that they feared they would miss the pre-dawn meal (suhur), meaning they would miss the success, i.e., the pre-dawn meal (suhur). And they relied on sticks due to the length of standing behind their imam; they would tie ropes between the pillars and hold onto them due to the length of standing. And this ignorant person says this is a religious innovation (bid'ah), meaning that when the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) exerted himself in the last ten nights and did not sleep, this became a religious innovation (bid'ah), and the Companions and those who came after them became innovators? No, let him sleep, he sleeps, and he does not declare people innovators. Yes.