Sayyiduna Mu'awiyah bin Abi Sufyan (may Allah be pleased with him), in the year he performed Hajj, was standing on the pulpit, and a lock of hair was in the hand of a royal guard. He was saying: "O people of Madinah! Where have your scholars gone? I heard the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) forbidding this, and he (peace and blessings be upon him) used to say: 'The Children of Israel were destroyed only when their women adopted this.'"
Hadith Referenceالسنن الكبرى للبيهقي / كتاب الصلاة / 4230