Humaid bin Abdur Rahman narrates that I heard Muawiyah bin Abi Sufyan (may Allah be pleased with him) in the year when he went for Hajj. Standing on the pulpit of the Prophet, he took a tuft of hair that was in the hand of his guard and said: O people of Madinah! Where have your scholars gone, that is, have the scholars who used to forbid you disappeared? I heard the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) prohibit this (joining of hair) in this manner, and he said that destruction came upon the Children of Israel when their women began to style their hair in this way (contrary to the Shariah).