Haywah ibn Shurayh, Saʿid ibn Abi Ayyub, Muʿawiyah ibn Saʿid al-Tujibi, Yahya ibn Ayyub, al-Layth, Ibn Lahiʿah, Rushdin ibn Saʿd, Ibrahim ibn Yazid al-Thati (1), and others.
There is a unanimous consensus that his narrations are authoritative proof.
Abu Hatim al-Busti included him in his book Al-Thiqat.
Abu Saʿid ibn Yunus said, “During his lifetime he was the mufti of Egypt. He was forbearing and intelligent, and he was the first to make knowledge public in Egypt and to speak on what is lawful and unlawful and on detailed issues.”
It was also said that before his time people there would mostly recount reports about trials, end-time battles, and exhortations to virtue.
Al-Layth ibn Saʿd remarked, “Yazid ibn Abi Habib is our master and our scholar.”
Damrah ibn Rabiʿah relates from Ibrahim ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Kinani:
“A group of men, among them Yazid ibn Abi Habib, gathered, intending to visit a sick person. Each hesitated to be the first to request permission to enter. Yazid said, ‘I know that when sheep and goats are together, the goat steps forward first.’ So he stepped ahead and asked permission to enter.”
Muhammad ibn Saʿd said, “Yazid ibn Habib was a freedman of the Banu ʿAmir ibn Luʾayy of Quraysh. He was trustworthy, transmitted many hadiths, and died in 128 AH.”
Another stated that he lived beyond seventy-five years.
Ahmad ibn Ishaq informed us; Akmal ibn Abi al-Azhar al-ʿAlawi informed us; Saʿid ibn Ahmad informed us; and ʿAli ibn Muhammad, Ahmad ibn ʿAbd al-Hamid, Ahmad ibn Maktum, Sunqur al-Zayni, Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Mufid, and others likewise said:
“ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿUmar informed us; Saʿid ibn Ahmad conveyed to us in person; Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Zaynabi informed us; Abu Bakr ibn ʿUmar al-Warraq narrated to us; ʿAbd Allah ibn Sulayman narrated to us; ʿIsa ibn Hammad narrated to us; al-Layth narrated to us from Yazid ibn Abi Habib, from Abu al-Khayr, from ʿUqbah, that the Messenger of Allah ﷺ…”