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I enquired about your doubts to a Shafi'i scholar. He was about to go for a journey, so I couldn't ask in detail, but got answers


Yes we should do as the imam does and its sunnah to do raf'ul yadain.


Yes one can recite surah if one gets time.


I couldn't ask this.



One can get up after the first salaam, but will miss the reward of the second salaam of the Imaam, so its better to get up after the second salaam.



The Imam said, just taking two hairs will fulfill the wajib.


Allahu Alam.

Do make dua for the scholar, he is suffering from a chronic disease.


Edit: i got this from Umdat as salik:

Then men have their entire head shaved,
which is optimal, though one may confine oneself
to (0: removing (A: by any means) three hairs
thereof (0: i.e. from the head, not something else
such as the beard or mustache), or may merely
shorten it, for which the optimal is to dip a little
less than two centimeters from all the hair. .
As for women, it is optimal for them

Jazak Allah Khair br. amr as always. Give my salaam to your Shaykh the next time you see him and ask him to make dua for us. So I suppose the only question remaining is:
"- When the Imam rises from the last sajdah in his third rak'ah, do you need to do raf'ul yadain and say an extra takbeer? (It's the end of your second rak'ah)"

NB: I am aware that these are extremely nit picky questions. But it's just to do ihsaan to the outward fiqh of salah inshaAllah. Jazakumullah.