Abu Dawud

Benefits and Issues:
Benefit: From these blessed hadiths, it is established that arranging, accepting, and attending Islamic (shar‘i) invitations is an extremely emphasized act.
Without exception as to who the inviter is, therefore, without a valid Islamic excuse, abstaining from them is absolutely not permissible.
This, in one sense, is counted as arrogance.
Likewise, accepting the invitations of the wealthy and turning away from the poor is also a major flaw.
Furthermore, an important condition is that in these invitations, adherence to Islamic matters and etiquettes, the expression of brotherhood and Islamic love, and honoring Muslims should be the objective; ostentation, seeking fame, gathering only the wealthy and influential, and not giving importance to the poor—
Extravagance, wastefulness, and other Islamic violations make such invitations disliked (makruh),
in which participation is not permissible.
In addition, the one participating in such an invitation should not make mere enjoyment of food and drink his sole objective.

Hadith Commentary:
Vocabulary of the Hadith:
يَتَعَاقَبُونَ:
They come one after another or in turns.
When the duty of one group ends, the responsibility of the other begins.
After the arrival of the second group, the first group departs.
In this way, the duty of the angels changes at the times of morning (fajr) and afternoon (‘asr), so that in the morning they may witness Allah’s servants leaving their soft and warm beds and their beloved, sweet sleep for the sake of Allah’s pleasure, and in the afternoon they may witness them leaving their worldly concerns and occupations. Due to the importance of the morning and afternoon prayers, these instill in the servant the capacity and readiness for the vision of Allah.

Benefits and Issues:
The majority of the Arabs and most grammarians, whose leader is the Imam of grammar, Sibawayh, hold the view that if the subject (fa‘il) is explicit, whether dual or plural, the verb should be singular; it is not permissible to use the dual or plural pronoun with it. However, according to the tribe of Banu Harith bin Ka‘b, it is permissible to use the dual and plural markers.

(yata‘āqabūna fīkum malā’ikah)
is according to their statement. Therefore, Akhfash and his followers interpret the verse of the Noble Qur’an:

“And those who did wrong concealed their private conversation” ()
in this way:
“Those who did wrong” is an explicit subject, and “concealed” is a plural verb with a plural pronoun attached. Similarly, “angels” is an explicit subject and (yata‘āqabūna) is a plural verb. But Sibawayh and his followers consider “those who did wrong” and “angels” as substitutes for the plural pronoun attached to the verb; they do not accept them as the subject.

However, in the next narration:
(al-malā’ikatu yata‘āqabūna)
is mentioned.
(al-malā’ikatu)
is the subject, and (yata‘āqabūna) is the verb with its subject.
In accordance with “malā’ikah,” the plural pronoun for the subject is used.

Benefit:
In this hadith, “those who are prevented from the invitation” refers to poor people, because they wait for occasions like weddings, hoping for the opportunity to eat to their fill. On the occasion of marriage, the poor people of the neighborhood should also be invited. And in this hadith, “those who do not wish to attend the invitation” refers to wealthy people, because the rich regularly eat various luxurious foods in their homes and do not have any particular eagerness for invitations such as wedding feasts (walimah), etc. Furthermore, this hadith proves that accepting an invitation is obligatory, even if one eats only a single morsel.