Middleware not redirecting to protected routes

Environment

next: 13.5.3
next-auth: 4.23.1
react: 18.2.0
typescript: 5.1.6

Reproduction URL

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Describe the issue

I am trying to make my authentication work using the middleware.ts file. However, the system does not redirect back to the callback URL from the middleware.

Let's say you are in the dashboard and you have a protected route in your nav menu (Let's say your protected route is /ab). You click on the ab button in the nav menu which will check if the user is logged in through the middleware file. If the user is not logged in, they are redirected to /login page and are required to log in. Once the user is logged in, they are redirected back to the dashboard. Now as a logged-in user, if they click on the ab button in the Nav menu they are not redirected to the /ab page and instead, the system just reloads the dashboard.

The following screenshot represents the network stack of the steps mentioned above (after a logged in user clicks on the /ab protected route: redirect

How to reproduce

middleware.ts

export { default } from "next-auth/middleware";

export const config = { matcher: ["/ab/:path*"] };

api/auth/[...nextauth]/route.ts

import NextAuth, { NextAuthOptions } from "next-auth";
import GithubProvider from "next-auth/providers/github";

export const authOptions: NextAuthOptions = {
  secret: process.env.NEXTAUTH_URL,
  callbacks: {
    session({ session }) {
      return session;
    },
  },
  session: {
    maxAge: 60 * 60 * 24,
  },
  pages: {
    signIn: "/login",
  },
  providers: [
    GithubProvider({
      clientId: process.env.GITHUB_CLIENT_ID!,
      clientSecret: process.env.GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET!,
    }),
  ],
};

const handler = NextAuth(authOptions);
export { handler as GET, handler as POST };

Expected behavior

The expected behavior should be to redirect to the specified back in the callback URL after the middleware checks the authentication.

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