The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Before the Hour there will come trials like patches of dark night. A man will wake up a believer and go to sleep an unbeliever, and go to sleep a believer and wake up an unbeliever. The one sitting during them is better than the one standing, and the one walking is better than the one hurrying. So break your bows, cut your bowstrings, and strike your swords against stones. If anyone enters upon one of you, let him be like the better of the two sons of Adam."
قال رسول الله ﷺ: إن بين يدي الساعة فتنا كقطع الليل المظلم، يصبح الرجل فيها مؤمنا ويمسي كافرا، ويمسي مؤمنا ويصبح كافرا، القاعد فيها خير من القائم، والماشي فيها خير من الساعي، فكسروا قسيكم، وقطعوا أوتاركم، واضربوا سيوفكم بالحجارة، فإن دخل- يعني على أحد منكم- فليكن كخير ابني آدم.
Reported by Abu Dawud (4259), Tirmidhi (2204), Ibn Majah (3961), and Ahmad (19730), and Ibn Hibban graded it sahih (5962), all of them through Muhammad bin Jahada, from Abdul-Rahman bin Tharwan, from Huzayll bin Shurahbil, from Abu Musa, who related it. Tirmidhi mentioned it in abridged form and said, "This is a hasan gharib hadith." I say, it is as he said, for Abdul-Rahman bin Tharwan's hadith is hasan.It was also reported by Abu Dawud (4262), Ahmad (19662), and Hakim (4/440), all of them through Abdul-Wahid bin Ziyad, who said, Asim Ahwal told us, from Abu Kabsha, who said, I heard Abu Musa say, the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, "Ahead of you lie tribulations like pieces of a dark night, in which a man wakes up a believer and by evening becomes a disbeliever, and becomes a believer by evening and wakes up a disbeliever the next morning. The one sitting during them is better than the one standing, the one standing is better than the one walking, and the one walking is better than the one running." They said, "Then what do you command us to do?" He said, "Be like the felt cloths of your houses."Hakim said, "Sahih in isnad." I say, Abu Kabsha here is Sadusi, and no narrator is known to have transmitted from him other than Asim Ahwal, and no one has confirmed him as reliable. That is why Dhahabi said in al-Mizan, "He is not known," except that he is corroborated in the first isnad.As for his saying, "Be like the felt cloths of your houses," the ahlas are the plural of hils, which is the cloth cover placed against the camel's back beneath the saddle. He likened staying at home to it because of how constantly and continuously it stays in place. So his saying, be like the felt cloth of the house, means, stick to it as one sticks to one's bed.