Shaykh al-Islām, may Allah have mercy on him, said:

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People have divided into three groups concerning “Yazīd” ibn Mu‘āwiya ibn Abī Sufyān: two extremes and a middle position.

Those at one extreme said that he was an unbeliever and a hypocrite, and that he sought to kill the grandson of the Messenger of Allah to vent his spite against the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, take revenge upon him, and avenge his grandfather ‘Utba, his grandfather’s brother Shayba, his maternal uncle al-Walīd ibn ‘Utba, and others whom the Prophet’s Companions—may Allah bless the Prophet and grant him peace—killed at the hands of ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib and others at Badr and elsewhere.

They said: “These were grudges stemming from Badr and remnants of pre-Islamic ignorance.” They attributed these verses to him:

“When those laden camels appeared, and those heads … rose into view upon the hills of Jayrūn,
The raven croaked, and I said, ‘Lament or do not lament … for I have settled my scores with the Prophet.’”

They also said that he quoted the poetry which Ibn al-Ziba‘rā recited on the day of Uhud:

“Would that my elders at Badr had witnessed … the anguish of the Khazraj under the blows of spears