Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Sahihah

It is narrated from Sayyiduna Abu Sa‘id and Sayyiduna Jabir (may Allah be pleased with them both) that the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) once delivered a lengthy sermon, mentioning matters of this world and the Hereafter, and said: “The first way the Children of Israel were destroyed was that the wife of a poor man would trouble her husband regarding clothes or jewelry, just as the wife of a wealthy man would. Then the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) mentioned a short-statured woman from the Children of Israel: she had wooden sandals (khadaun) made and had a ring made, in which there was a hollow and a lid over it. She filled that hollow with musk and went out accompanied by two tall or heavily built women. They sent a man behind them; he recognized the two tall women but could not recognize the woman with the wooden sandals.”