Someone asked, "Messenger of Allah, have you been able to benefit Abu Talib in any way? He used to protect you and grow angry on your behalf."He replied, "Yes, he is in a shallow pool of fire. Were it not for me, he would be in the lowest depths of the Fire."In another wording, "Yes, I found him plunged in the depths of the Fire, and I brought him out to a shallow pool."
يا رسول الله هل نفعت أبا طالب بشيء؟ فإنه كان يحوطك ويغضب لك، قال: نعم، هو في ضحضاح من نار، لولا أنا لكان في الدرك الأسفل من النار. وفي لفظ: نعم، وجدته في غمرات من النار فأخرجته إلى ضحضاح.
Bukhari related it in Al-Adab (6208), and Muslim in Al-Iman (209:357), both through Abu Awana, from Abdul-Malik bin Umayr, from Abdullah bin Harith bin Nawfal, from Abbas bin Abdul-Muttalib, who narrated it. The second wording was related by Muslim (209:358) through another route, from Abdul-Malik bin Umayr.His saying, "ghamarat" (its singular is ghamrah), refers to the bulk or main part of something.