Ibn Masʿūd (raḍiyAllāhu ‘anhu) said:
Do not praise anyone for something Allāh blessed you with, nor blame them for something Allāh did not give you. For indeed the provisions of Allāh is not determined by ones' determination, nor does the hatred of the haters prevent it.
[Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī (rahimahillāh), Shuʿab al-ʾĪmān 1/384, 205]
