‘Allamah Ibn Hajar Haytami Makki رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه said: Sayyiduna Saalih Bin Ahmad Bin Hanbal رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه humbly said to his father Sayyiduna Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه: People attribute to us that we are followers   of Yazeed. Sayyiduna Imam Ahmad Bin Hanbal رَحْمَةُ اللهِ تَعَالٰی عَلَيْه replied:                   ‘يَا بُنَيَّ وَهَل يَتَوَلّٰى يَزِيۡدَ اَحَدٌ يُؤمِنُ بِاللّٰهِ’ My son! Does anyone who believes in      Allah عَزَّوَجَلَّ have love for Yazeed? (As-Sawa’iq-ul-Muharriqah, pp. 222)

Mu’awiyah, the elder son of Yazeed, was a pious person and used to hate his father Yazeed due to his disloyalty and wickedness and commented about his father Yazeed: ‘My father was appointed as ruler but he was not entitled      to it, he waged war against the blessed grandson of the Noblest Prophet      صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم, his lifespan was reduced and his generation was destroyed and he has been suffering torment in his grave until the Hereafter’. Weeping, he continued: ‘The heaviest thing is his horrific end and bad abode, this        ill-fated person murdered the blessed progeny of the Noblest Prophet          صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم, made alcohol permissible, destroyed the sacred Ka’bah.

(As-Sawa’iq-ul-Muharriqah, pp. 224)

Sadr-ush-Shari’ah, Badr-ut-Tareeqah, ‘Allamah Maulana Mufti Muhammad Amjad ‘Ali A’zami عَـلَيْهِ رَحْـمَةُ الـلّٰـهِ الۡـقَـوِی has stated: Yazeed was a wrong-doer, transgressor and he had committed major sins, he has no connection to the Holy Prophet صَلَّى اللهُ تَعَالٰى عَلَيْهِ وَاٰلِهٖ وَسَلَّم and Sayyiduna Imam Husayn رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ and nowadays those ignorant and misled people comment: ‘It was their matter, we should avoid discussing it, Sayyiduna Imam Husayn رَضِىَ اللهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُ is our Prince and (filthy Yazeed) is also our Prince’. People having such thoughts and uttering such types of words are wicked, and those who bear hatred in their hearts towards Sayyiduna ‘Ali, Imam Hasan and Imam Husayn رَضِىَ الـلّٰـهُ تَعَالٰی عَـنْهُم, they deserve Hell. (Bahar-e-Shari’at, part 1, vol. 1, pp. 261)

صَلُّوۡا عَلَى الۡحَبِيۡب       صَلَّى اللّٰهُ تَعَالٰى عَلٰى مُحَمَّد