Does one interrupt the rawatib to pray the funeral prayer?

Question:
Honorable Shaykh, a questioner asks: What is the ruling on the funeral prayer? And if a person is in prayer and the funeral is brought in, does he interrupt the rawatib and join the funeral prayer? Please guide us in light of this.

Answer:
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, and may Allah send blessings and peace upon our Prophet Muhammad, and upon his family and all his Companions. Both are voluntary: the rawatib prayer and the funeral prayer. Both are a sunnah (recommended practice). So he does not interrupt the rawatib, but he shortens it so that he catches what remains of the funeral prayer after the taslim. Then he completes the funeral prayer like one who joins the prayer late. Yes.