Hadith No: 1
Al-Dhahabi - Siyar A'lam al-Nubala - And among those who witnessed the time of the Prophethood - Yazid ibn Muawiya
Volume: (4) - Page Number: (37)
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- .... And Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Masma' said: Yazid became intoxicated and stood up to dance, then fell on his head, causing it to split open and his brain to be exposed.

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Reference: Seyar A'laam al-Nobalaa Book 4

Hadith No: 2
Ibn Kathir - Al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya - Then the year 64 entered - Biography of Yazid ibn Muawiya
Volume: (11) - Page Number: (659)
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- .... It has been narrated that Yazid became well-known for playing musical instruments, drinking wine, singing, hunting, and keeping boys, singers, dogs, and engaging in fights between rams, bees, and monkeys. There was not a day that he did not wake up intoxicated. He would tie a monkey onto a horse outfitted with saddlebags using ropes, drive it around, and dress the monkey in golden caps, as well as the boys. He would also race horses, and when the monkey died, he would mourn it. It is said that the reason for its death was that he had carried a female monkey and it bit him while he was teasing it. They reported other things about him, and Allah knows best regarding the accuracy of that.

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Reference: Al-Bidaayah wa al-Nihaayah Book 11

Hadith No: 3
Ibn Hibban - al-Thiqat - al-Sirah al-Nabawiyyah
Mention of the clarification that those we mentioned were caliphs and those after them were kings
Volume: (2) - Page Number: (314)
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- .... Yazid ibn Muawiyah died in Hawarin, a village in the outskirts of Damascus, fourteen nights before the month of Rabi' al-Awwal in the year sixty-four, which was the day he was thirty-eight years old. And it is said that Yazid ibn Muawiyah became drunk one night, stood up to dance, and fell on his head, causing his brain to scatter. He died, and his son Muawiyah ibn Yazid prayed over him.

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Reference: At Theqaat Book 2

Hadith No: 4
Al-Baladhuri - Ansab al-Ashraf - Ancestry of the Banu Abd Shams ibn Abd Manaf
Umayyah the Elder ibn Abd Shams - Warb ibn Umayyah - Abu Sufyan Sakhr ibn Warb was born
As for Muawiyah ibn Abu Sufyan - Muawiyah ibn Abu Sufyan (may Allah be pleased with him) had a son - Yazid ibn Muawiyah commanded
Volume: (5) - Page Number: (287)
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769 - And an elder from Sham mentioned to me that the cause of Yazid's death was that he rode his monkey on an ass while he was drunk and then chased after it, causing his neck to break or something to rupture in his abdomen.

770 - .... And Muhammad ibn Yazid al-Rifa'i narrated to me that my uncle told me from Ibn Iyash, who said: Yazid went out to hunt in Hawarin while he was drunk, riding with a wild she-ass in front of him that he had loaded with a monkey, and he began to run the she-ass and say:
O Aba Khlef, find a way for yourself, * for there is no guarantee if you perish upon her.
And he fell, breaking his neck.

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Reference: Ansab al Ashraf Book 5