The condemnation of those who pray the Tahajjud prayer after Tarawih in Ramadan

Question:
This matter, I ask Allah to guide you. This is a questioner who was permitted to ask from the square. The questioner says: Our Shaykh, I am the imam in one of the mosques. In Ramadan, I used to pray Tarawih, and then afterwards I would pray Tahajjud in the last third of the night. Some of the brothers objected to this, and he announced that it is an innovation, so my mother’s treatment of me changed because of that to something else. He revived an innovation, an innovation among the innovations, until some of them came to believe that this is a blameworthy innovation. What is your position on this?

Answer:
This statement is, in reality, the innovation. It is the one who condemns Tahajjud and standing in prayer at night who is the innovator. As for the one who stands in prayer at night, performs Tahajjud, and leads people in prayer in the first part of the night and in the last part in Ramadan, in the last ten nights, he is the one who is upon the Sunnah. And the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) encouraged standing in prayer in Ramadan.
So he said: And he did not specify ten, twenty, or thirty, but rather he encouraged standing in prayer in Ramadan. So the Muslims stand in prayer in Ramadan from the first part of the night and in the last part in the last ten nights. And the Salaf used to do this; they would pray Tarawih and pray Tahajjud, and they would not leave until the dawn.
And this person who says, “You are innovators,” is ignorant and does not know. So it is obligatory for the Muslims to take advantage of the month of Ramadan by praying Tarawih and Tahajjud, whether in congregation or individually, and to increase in that according to what Allah makes easy for them, and no one should specify the number of rak'ahs for them. Yes. Yes.