Satan told me to Pray Qiyam

Disclaimer: This is not a story narrated from any ahadith. It is a mere fable which I heard from some of my teachers which carries a beautiful lesson. If anyone has a reference for the story though I would really appreciate it if you left a comment.

There once was a man who used to pray in the night perpetually. He used to prolong the units of prayer and make much rememberence of his Lord in them. One night when the man was sleeping, Satan came to the man and whispered to him, "The night is long, so sleep." At this, the man did not get up for qiyam that night and slept in till Fajr.

At the sound of the Fajr adhan, the man awoke and realized that he had missed his qiyaam! Knowing this, the man started crying and feeling regret throughout the whole day. After years of practice, the man's sorrow had no bounds. He went to sleep that same night again with the intention of waking up for qiyaam.

The man feel asleep very easily and was able to wake up for qiyam this time. But it was different as he heard a voice telling him, "You! Get up and pray! I am the Shaytan and I am telling you to get up!" The man was baffled as to why the accursed one was waking him to the obedience of his Lord. The man then enquired of Shaytan, "Why are you waking me to worship Allah?" Shaytan responded, "Last night, I came to you to make sure you do not attain the reward of standing and worshiping your Lord in the late part of the night. I was succesful, atleast I thought. But the amount of time you spent in the day regretting and feeling sorrow for what you had missed, you earned much more reward in that process. So now I'm here to tell you to go pray!"