What is the ruling on consistently reciting specific surahs in the night prayer?

Question : Shaykh Muhammad, we have a woman on the line. If someone wants to pray the night prayer and consistently recites specific surahs, for example, persisting with the end of Surat al-Baqarah, is there anything wrong with that?

Answer : There is nothing wrong with this. That is, a person owes nothing if he consistently recites a specific surah or a specific verse, as long as he does not believe that this is a sunnah (recommended practice). If he believes it is a sunnah, we look to see if the sunnah has come with that; if it has, then it is true, otherwise it is a bid'ah (religious innovation). An example of this is if a person consistently recites and in the two rak'ahs of Fajr. We would say this is a sunnah because the sunnah has come with that.
If he consistently recites and Surat al-Asr believing that this is a sunnah, this is a bid'ah (religious innovation) because the sunnah has not come with that. However, if he does not believe that it is a sunnah, but rather he recites this surah or these verses because they are the ones he has best memorized in his opinion,