For the Imam to err in pardoning is better than to err in punishing. (1)

1486 – Hannād narrated to us, saying: Wakīʿ narrated to us, from Yazīd ibn Ziyād, similar to the ḥadīth of Muḥammad ibn Rabīʿah, and he did not raise it (to the Prophet). (2)

On this topic, there is also a report from Abū Hurayrah and ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAmr.

The ḥadīth of ʿĀʾishah is not known to us as raised (marfūʿ) except through the narration of Muḥammad ibn Rabīʿah, from Yazīd ibn Ziyād al-Dimashqī, from al-Zuhrī, from ʿUrwah, from ʿĀʾishah, from the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him.

Wakīʿ also narrated it from Yazīd ibn Ziyād similarly, but he did not raise it (to the Prophet), and the narration of Wakīʿ is more sound.

Something similar to this has also been reported from more than one of the Companions of the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, that they—

(1) Its chain of transmission is weak; Yazīd ibn Ziyād al-Dimashqī is abandoned (matrūk).
It was also cited by the author in al-ʿIlal 2/595, al-Dāraquṭnī 3/84, al-Ḥākim 4/384, and al-Bayhaqī 8/238 and 9/123.
On this topic, there is a report from Abū Hurayrah in Ibn Mājah (2545) and Abū Yaʿlā (6618), though its chain includes Ibrāhīm ibn al-Faḍl al-Makhzūmī, who was deemed weak by Aḥmad, Ibn Maʿīn, al-Bukhārī, and others.
And from ʿAlī in al-Dāraquṭnī 3/84 and al-Bayhaqī 8/238.
It is also reported as a statement of Muʿādh ibn Jabal, Ibn Masʿūd, and ʿUqbah in al-Dāraquṭnī 3/84 and al-Bayhaqī 8/238.

(2) Its chain of transmission is weak, like the preceding one. It was also cited by Ibn Abī Shaybah 9/569 and al-Bayhaqī 8/238.