Benefits of the Hadith: (… So I said to her: When the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stands up, wake me. So the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) stood up, and I stood up beside his left side, so he took my hand and placed me on his right side. Then whenever I dozed off, he would pinch the fleshy part of my ear. He said: So he prayed eleven rak'ahs, then he wrapped himself in his cloak until I could hear his breathing while he was sleeping. When the dawn became clear to him, he prayed two light rak'ahs.)

The Shaykh : In this is evidence for the permissibility of appointing someone, specifically appointing a person to wake a sleeper for prayer, because Ibn Abbas asked his maternal aunt Maymunah to wake him when the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) stood up. This is an addition to what has come before, as this wording was not passed down to us previously, but the addition is accepted if it does not contradict the other wordings. In it is also that it is recommended for a person, if there is someone around him who is dozing off, to pinch the fleshy part of his ear, because this is more likely to rouse him, and it is better than poking him in his thigh, knee, or side. The ear is the place of hearing, so pinching the fleshy part is for the purpose of waking up and regaining alertness, which is better.
And in it is evidence for what was mentioned previously, that the position of a single follower is to the

The questioner : right.

The Shaykh : To the right of the imam. Is it an obligation such that standing to the left of the imam is invalid if the right side is empty, or is it a recommended practice? The correct view is that it is a recommended practice, because there was only a mere action in it, and a mere action does not indicate obligation. This is a rule we know from the principles that the mere action of the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) does not indicate obligation, except if it is an explanation of a command in the Qur'an and the Sunnah, and it is an explanation of a general text, in which case it has the ruling of that general text. Yes.
The reader: Ibn Abi Umar and Muhammad ibn Hatim narrated to us…

The Shaykh : And in it is also, this hadith is evidence for what was mentioned previously and repeated, that it is recommended to shorten the two rak'ahs of the dawn prayer, and that shortening them is better than lengthening them.
And in it is that if the matter comes down to a person lengthening them, making supplication, lengthening the recitation, and making dhikr, or shortening them, the better is
The student: The second.
Another student: Shortening.

The Shaykh : The second shortening, because following the Sunnah is more preferable than abundance of deeds, for following the Sunnah is what makes the deed good, and Allah the Exalted and Majestic says and He did not say "abundance of deeds." From this we know that what is reported from some of the Tabi'un regarding exertion in worship is their independent legal reasoning, but they were not correct in it, except that if it came from independent legal reasoning, they are rewarded with one reward, whereas the complete reward is by following.