It is narrated from Humaid bin Abdur Rahman bin Awf that he heard Muawiyah bin Abu Sufyan, in the year he performed Hajj and he was on the pulpit, take a braid of hair from his servant’s hand and say: O people of Madinah! Where are your scholars? I heard the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, forbidding this, and he said:“The Children of Israel were destroyed when their women began to do this.”