Benefits of the Hadith (If one of you wakes up from his sleep, let him sniffle three times . . . ).

The Shaykh : This hadith contains several benefits, among which is: the command for one who wakes up from sleep to sniffle three times. This is derived from his saying: Is this command obligatory or not? We say that the default ruling for a command is obligation, especially since the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) gave the reason for it as something from which one must purify oneself, namely the trace of Satan who spends the night on the nose.
Among the benefits of this hadith is: the repetition of purification three times, based on his saying: Can it be taken from this that removing ritual impurity must be done with three washes, and that one wash is not sufficient to remove ritual impurity? Both possibilities exist. It is possible to say that other ritual impurities are analogized to this, as some jurists held, stating that it is a condition for removing ritual impurity that it be done with three washes. The school of thought, as is known to you, requires seven washes.
Among the benefits of this hadith is: considering the number three in legal rulings, as in this hadith and its parallels.
Among the benefits of this hadith is: the excellent teaching of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), where he coupled the ruling with its cause. Coupling the ruling with its cause has benefits, among which is generality if this cause exists in matters other than what was explicitly mentioned. It also stimulates a person to act or repels him from it; if it is in good, he is stimulated, and if it is in something else, he flees and is not stimulated. Here, it is a matter of warning, based on his saying: . It also establishes the prophethood of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family), because his knowledge that Satan spends the night on his nose is not perceived by the senses. If all the people of the earth gathered to find out about this, they would not find out. But the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) found out about it through revelation, because he (peace and blessings be upon him) does not know the unseen.
Among the benefits of this hadith is: its apparent generality, meaning the generality of the command to sniffle in every sleep, based on his saying . However, the cause necessitates specification, where he said: ? Yahya, complete it?
The student : .

The Shaykh : Some scholars took the generality and said that giving the reason for some instances of a general statement with a cause does not necessitate specification. Other scholars said: rather, the cause specifies the general statement. In any case, we say that the precaution is for a person to sniffle three times, even in daytime sleep, because the wording allows for it, and the return of the cause to some of its instances does not intend specification. Just as the return of the ruling to some instances does not necessitate specification. We give an example of this: the hadith of Jabir . If we look at the beginning of the hadith , we say that the right of pre-emption is established in every partner who sells his partner's shared share, whether it is land, cars, equipment, or otherwise, due to the generality of his saying: even in ... for example. And if we look at his saying: , we say that this necessitates that the intended meaning of the generality in his saying is what?
The student : Lands.

The Shaykh : Lands, in lands only, because they are the ones in which boundaries are established and roads are directed. For this reason, the scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) differed on whether the right of pre-emption is obligatory in everything, or only in land, or in land that is divisible? According to the known disagreement among scholars. And from that is the saying of Allah the Exalted: This is general for divorced women, including those whose husbands have the right to take them back and those whose husbands do not have the right to take them back. But his saying necessitates that the intended meaning of "divorced women" here is those in the waiting period of revocable divorce. The scholars ... the first is that all divorced women are required to wait for three menstrual cycles, and they did not pay attention to the specification of the ruling in some instances. And there is no doubt that the precaution is to take the generality, whether in this or in this.