Is it obligatory for a person in a state of major ritual impurity who wants to sleep to perform the ablution for prayer?

The questioner : May Allah bless you. In previous hadiths in the chapter on the person in a state of major ritual impurity performing the ablution for prayer, is there a ruling that it is obligatory for the person in a state of major ritual impurity who wants to sleep to perform the ablution for prayer?

The Shaykh : And we mentioned this. We said that it is not obligatory, based on the hadith of 'A'ishah that the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him) used to sleep without touching water. Although the Hafiz mentioned that the hadith is defective, some of them rejected this defect.

The questioner : Meaning, he is deflecting these events.

The Shaykh : Yes, but in any case, the precaution is to perform the ablution for prayer so that he sleeps in one of the two states of purity. For this reason, the jurists (may Allah have mercy on them) said that it is disliked to sleep without performing the ablution for prayer.