Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah 31791 — Reports on the supplication of al-Ala

Ziyad bin Hudayr said: I heard Sayyiduna al-Ala bin al-Hadrami (may Allah be pleased with him) telling his maternal uncle that when he entered the sea, this supplication was on his tongue: "O Allah, O Forbearing One, O Most High, O Most Great."