diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 30853e8434c6..afea1dfbef34 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 
 ### Fixed
 
+- Fixed `AttentionExplainer` usage within `AttentiveFP` ([#8244](https://github.com/pyg-team/pytorch_geometric/pull/8244))
 - Fixed `load_from_state_dict` in lazy `Linear` modules ([#8242](https://github.com/pyg-team/pytorch_geometric/pull/8242))
 - Fixed pre-trained `DimeNet++` performance on `QM9` ([#8239](https://github.com/pyg-team/pytorch_geometric/pull/8239))
 - Fixed `GNNExplainer` usage within `AttentiveFP` ([#8216](https://github.com/pyg-team/pytorch_geometric/pull/8216))
diff --git a/test/explain/algorithm/test_attention_explainer.py b/test/explain/algorithm/test_attention_explainer.py
index f5ab16d18d73..e4479367d5b6 100644
--- a/test/explain/algorithm/test_attention_explainer.py
+++ b/test/explain/algorithm/test_attention_explainer.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 from torch_geometric.explain import AttentionExplainer, Explainer
 from torch_geometric.explain.config import ExplanationType, MaskType
-from torch_geometric.nn import GATConv, GATv2Conv, TransformerConv
+from torch_geometric.nn import AttentiveFP, GATConv, GATv2Conv, TransformerConv
 
 
 class AttentionGNN(torch.nn.Module):
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ def forward(self, x, edge_index):
     [0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7],
     [1, 0, 2, 1, 3, 2, 4, 3, 5, 4, 6, 5, 7, 6],
 ])
+edge_attr = torch.randn(edge_index.size(1), 5)
+batch = torch.tensor([0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2])
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize('index', [None, 2, torch.arange(3)])
@@ -61,3 +63,22 @@ def test_attention_explainer_supports(explanation_type, node_mask_type):
                 return_type='raw',
             ),
         )
+
+
+def test_attention_explainer_attentive_fp(check_explanation):
+    model = AttentiveFP(3, 16, 1, edge_dim=5, num_layers=2, num_timesteps=2)
+
+    explainer = Explainer(
+        model=model,
+        algorithm=AttentionExplainer(),
+        explanation_type='model',
+        edge_mask_type='object',
+        model_config=dict(
+            mode='binary_classification',
+            task_level='node',
+            return_type='raw',
+        ),
+    )
+
+    explanation = explainer(x, edge_index, edge_attr=edge_attr, batch=batch)
+    check_explanation(explanation, None, explainer.edge_mask_type)
diff --git a/torch_geometric/explain/algorithm/attention_explainer.py b/torch_geometric/explain/algorithm/attention_explainer.py
index 6db4905eaae2..69f2ebeb17c2 100644
--- a/torch_geometric/explain/algorithm/attention_explainer.py
+++ b/torch_geometric/explain/algorithm/attention_explainer.py
@@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ def hook(module, msg_kwargs, out):
 
         hook_handles = []
         for module in model.modules():  # Register message forward hooks:
-            if isinstance(module, MessagePassing):
+            if (isinstance(module, MessagePassing)
+                    and module.explain is not False):
                 hook_handles.append(module.register_message_forward_hook(hook))
 
         model(x, edge_index, **kwargs)
diff --git a/torch_geometric/nn/models/attentive_fp.py b/torch_geometric/nn/models/attentive_fp.py
index 7af1d19274ad..43a664fc3b68 100644
--- a/torch_geometric/nn/models/attentive_fp.py
+++ b/torch_geometric/nn/models/attentive_fp.py
@@ -41,15 +41,17 @@ def reset_parameters(self):
         zeros(self.bias)
 
     def forward(self, x: Tensor, edge_index: Adj, edge_attr: Tensor) -> Tensor:
-        # propagate_type: (x: Tensor, edge_attr: Tensor)
-        out = self.propagate(edge_index, x=x, edge_attr=edge_attr, size=None)
+        # edge_updater_type: (x: Tensor, edge_attr: Tensor)
+        alpha = self.edge_updater(edge_index, x=x, edge_attr=edge_attr)
+
+        # propagate_type: (x: Tensor, alpha: Tensor)
+        out = self.propagate(edge_index, x=x, alpha=alpha, size=None)
         out = out + self.bias
         return out
 
-    def message(self, x_j: Tensor, x_i: Tensor, edge_attr: Tensor,
-                index: Tensor, ptr: OptTensor,
-                size_i: Optional[int]) -> Tensor:
-
+    def edge_update(self, x_j: Tensor, x_i: Tensor, edge_attr: Tensor,
+                    index: Tensor, ptr: OptTensor,
+                    size_i: Optional[int]) -> Tensor:
         x_j = F.leaky_relu_(self.lin1(torch.cat([x_j, edge_attr], dim=-1)))
         alpha_j = (x_j @ self.att_l.t()).squeeze(-1)
         alpha_i = (x_i @ self.att_r.t()).squeeze(-1)
@@ -57,6 +59,9 @@ def message(self, x_j: Tensor, x_i: Tensor, edge_attr: Tensor,
         alpha = F.leaky_relu_(alpha)
         alpha = softmax(alpha, index, ptr, size_i)
         alpha = F.dropout(alpha, p=self.dropout, training=self.training)
+        return alpha
+
+    def message(self, x_j: Tensor, alpha: Tensor) -> Tensor:
         return self.lin2(x_j) * alpha.unsqueeze(-1)