Following the funeral, walking with it and praying over it

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) reports the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Visit the sick, and walk with the funeral; this will remind you of the Hereafter."
Ahmad and al-Bazzar recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Uthman bin Affan (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates: We accompanied the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) at home and on journeys. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) used to visit the sick Muslims and attend their funerals (the narrator is unsure; perhaps the words are:) follow their funerals.
Al-Bazzar recorded it, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) reports the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "The first reward given to a servant after his death is that all those who attended his funeral are forgiven."
Al-Bazzar recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Marwan bin Salim al-Shami, and he is da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Abu Sa'id al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever offers the funeral prayer receives one qirat of reward, and whoever stays with the deceased until it is buried receives two qirats. One qirat is like Mount Uhud."
Al-Bazzar, Ahmad and Abu Ya'la recorded it, and its chain is hasan (good).

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) reports the saying of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him): "Whoever follows a funeral, carries it on his shoulder, throws handfuls of soil into its grave, and remains seated until he is given permission to leave, returns with two qirats of reward, each qirat being like Mount Uhud." Allamah al-Haythami says: I say: The hadith of Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) is mentioned in the Sahih in abridged form, and it is other than this one.
Ahmad recorded it. Its chain contains a narrator, Ibn Lahi'ah, and there is criticism about him.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever follows a funeral until he offers its funeral prayer receives one qirat." The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was asked about the qirat, and he said: "It is like Mount Uhud."

In one narration the wording is: The people said: "O Messenger of Allah, is it like these qirats of ours?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "No, rather it is like Mount Uhud" (the narrator is unsure whether the words were:) "greater than Mount Uhud."
Ahmad recorded it, and al-Tabarani in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir and al-Mu'jam al-Awsat; however, in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir he recorded these words: It is reported from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) (that he said:) "Whoever follows a funeral until he offers its funeral prayer and then returns receives one qirat, and whoever offers its funeral prayer and then walks with it until it is buried receives two qirats." It was said: "O Messenger of Allah, what are the two qirats?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Like Mount Uhud."
Al-Bazzar recorded something similar, and its narrators are thiqat (trustworthy).

Sayyiduna Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Any Muslim who attends the funeral of a Muslim man receives one qirat of reward. If he remains seated until it is levelled over him (that is, until the deceased is buried), that person receives two qirats of reward, each qirat being like Mount Uhud." In one narration the wording is: "Whoever offers the funeral prayer, one qirat is recorded for him."
Abu Ya'la recorded it, and al-Tabarani in al-Mu'jam al-Awsat with these words: "Whoever follows a funeral and offers its funeral prayer"; the people said: "O Messenger of Allah, what is meant by the qirat?" The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Like Mount Uhud." One of the two chains contains Muhtasib, and the other contains Rawh bin Ata', and both of them are da'if (weak).

Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: "Whoever comes to the house of the deceased receives one qirat; if he goes with the funeral, he receives one qirat; if he offers its funeral prayer, he receives one qirat; and if he waits for it until it is buried, he receives one qirat." (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: There is another hadith from him in the Sahih, different from this one.
Al-Bazzar recorded it. Its chain contains Ma'di bin Sulayman; al-Tirmidhi graded his hadith sahih, Abu Hatim and others declared him thiqah (trustworthy), and al-Nasa'i (may Allah have mercy on him) and Abu Zur'ah declared him da'if (weak). The rest of its narrators are the narrators of the Sahih.

Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them both) says: I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: "Two qirats will be placed in his scale, each qirat like Mount Uhud." (The narrator says:) What is meant is that this will be for the person who attended the funeral.
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir. Its chain contains Nafi' Abu Hurmuz, who is matruk (abandoned).

Abdullah bin Yasar says: Amr bin Hurayth came to visit Sayyiduna Imam Hasan bin Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) when he was ill. Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: "You have come to visit Hasan while there is in your heart what there is?" Amr said to him: "You are not my Lord, that you can turn my heart however you wish." Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "That does not stop us from giving you sincere advice. I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) say: 'No Muslim visits his brother when he is ill except that Allah Almighty sends seventy thousand angels for him, who keep praying for mercy for him: if he went at any hour of the day, this continues until evening, and if he went at any hour of the night, this continues until morning.'" Amr bin Hurayth asked Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him): "What is your view about walking with a funeral: should one walk in front of it or behind it?" Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said to him: "Walking behind it has the same superiority over walking in front of it as offering the obligatory prayer in congregation has over offering the prayer alone." Amr bin Hurayth said: "But I have seen Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) and Sayyiduna Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) walking in front of the funeral." Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said: "Both of them disliked putting people into difficulty." (Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: Abu Dawud recorded only the part about visiting the sick from this narration, and he said that the visitor was Sayyiduna Abu Musa al-Ash'ari (may Allah be pleased with him), whereas here it is reported that he was Amr bin Hurayth.
Ahmad recorded it, and al-Bazzar recorded it in abridged form. The narrators of Ahmad are thiqat (trustworthy). Further on, a report from Sayyiduna Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) will come that is clearer than this; it will come in the chapter on what should be said when placing the deceased in the grave.

Ibrahim bin Muslim al-Hajari says: I attended the funeral of the son of Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Abi Awfa (may Allah be pleased with him). He was riding a black mule. The women began telling the man leading the mule: "Take him ahead of the funeral." He did so, and I heard him say to that man: "Where is the funeral?" The man said: "Behind you." The narrator says: This happened once or perhaps twice; then he said: "Did I not forbid you from taking me ahead of the funeral?" The narrator says: Meanwhile he heard the voice of a woman reciting an elegy, so he said: "Stop! Did I not forbid you women from this? The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbade us from elegies. Any one of you may shed as many tears as she wishes."
(Allamah al-Haythami says:) I say: Ibn Majah recorded only the part about the prohibition of elegies from this narration.
Ahmad recorded it. The narrator Ibrahim al-Hajari has been criticised.

Sayyiduna Sahl bin Sa'd (may Allah be pleased with him) says: I saw the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) walking behind the funeral.
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir. Its chain contains Sulayman bin Salamah al-Jana'izi, who is da'if (weak).

Darraj says: I saw Sayyiduna Abdullah bin Amr bin al-As (may Allah be pleased with him) riding a mount ahead of the funeral until, when he reached the graveyard, he dismounted and sat down before the funeral arrived.
Al-Tabarani recorded it in al-Mu'jam al-Kabir. Its chain contains Ibn Lahi'ah, who has been criticised.