Abd al-Rahman b. 'Auf said that he heard Mu'awiya b. Abi Sufyin during the season of Hajj, (saying) as he sat upon the pulpit holding a bunch of hair in his hand which was (previously) in the hand of his sentinel:
O people of Medina, where are your scholars? I heard Allah's Messenger ( صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم ) forbidding this and saying: That the people of Bani Isra'il were ruined at the time when their women wore such hair.