Related%20passage for Yevamot 16:5

אֲפִלּוּ שָׁמַע מִן הַנָּשִׁים אוֹמְרוֹת, מֵת אִישׁ פְּלוֹנִי, דַּיּוֹ. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, אֲפִלּוּ שָׁמַע מִן הַתִּינוֹקוֹת אוֹמְרִים, הֲרֵי אָנוּ הוֹלְכִין לִסְפֹּד וְלִקְבֹר אֶת אִישׁ פְּלוֹנִי, בֵּין שֶׁהוּא מִתְכַּוֵּן וּבֵין שֶׁאֵינוֹ מִתְכַּוֵּן. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה בֶן בָּבָא אוֹמֵר, בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל עַד שֶׁיְּהֵא מִתְכַּוֵּן. וּבְגוֹי, אִם הָיָה מִתְכַּוֵּן, אֵין עֵדוּתוֹ עֵדוּת:

Even if he overheard women saying: "That man died" [(where it is not their intention to testify)], it is sufficient [i.e., he may go to testify to marry his wife.] R. Yehudah says: Even if he overheard children saying: "We are going to mourn and bury that man." [The gemara states that they must say: "We are returning from mourning and burying that man." And he must also hear them speaking about the eulogy, viz.: "These and these rabbis were there, and these and these eulogists were there." For it is the custom of the young to play and to invent names. And it may be that they have buried an ant or a grasshopper, whom they call by the name of a certain man.] (The speaker is believed) whether or not he intended (to testify.) R. Yehudah b. Bava says: With a Jew, (he is not believed) until he intends (to testify); with a gentile, if he intends to testify, his testimony is no testimony.

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