The virtue of the funeral prayer and the ruling on abandoning it

The presenter:
And may Allah bless you.

Question:
This questioner asks: Regarding the funeral prayer, what is the virtue associated with it? And some people, Honorable Shaykh, when the funeral is placed, they leave and do not pray over it.

Answer:
The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: So if he prays over it and walks with it to the cemetery until it is buried, he has two qirats of reward. The qirat in this hadith is like a great mountain. It is a great reward in this. So the one who attends the prayer over it has one qirat, and the one who walks with it to the grave and attends its burial has two qirats. So the reward varies; the reward in this varies. So the Muslim should seek the most complete and the best. Yes. And as for abandoning the funeral prayer, this is a deprivation. It is not obligatory upon him because others pray over it, but he deprives himself of this reward. Also, his dead brother has a right upon him that he should pray over him and seek forgiveness for him and make du'a for him. So this is among the rights of Muslims upon one another. Yes.