However, the hadith has a strong corroborating report from the hadith of Abū Umāmah, attributed to the Prophet, which al-Tirmidhī authenticated. See Takhrīj al-Targhīb (1/60). Al-Bazzār also recorded the hadith in his Musnad (no. 133 in Kashf al-Astār) through Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah, attributed to the Prophet, with the wording: “Everything—even the fish in the sea—seeks forgiveness for the teacher of goodness.” However, concerning this Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, al-Haythamī said (1/124): “He is a liar.”

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Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it (nos. 11372 and 11498) through Rushdayn ibn Saʿd, from Abū Ṣakhr, from ʿAbd al-Karīm Abū Umayyah, from ʿAṭāʾ ibn Abī Rabāḥ, from Ibn ʿAbbās, attributed to the Prophet. He also narrated it in al-Awsaṭ (3285) through Ibn Lahīʿah, from ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Abī Umayyah, with the same wording.

I say: This is a weak chain of transmission. ʿAbd al-Karīm Abū Umayyah, Rushdayn ibn Saʿd, and Ibn Lahīʿah are all weak. Al-Haythamī, however, identified only the first of them as the defect, saying (5/67): “Al-Ṭabarānī narrated it in al-Awsaṭ and al-Kabīr, and its chain includes ʿAbd al-Karīm Abū Umayyah, who is weak.”

Al-Haythamī then mentioned a corroborating report for it (5/68), from the hadith of ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr, attributed to the Prophet, with the addition: “He abandons the prayer and commits …,” and said: