Severing Family Ties, Bad Neighborliness, and False Testimony
Appeared
In brief
Before the Hour, the bonds that hold families and neighbourhoods together start to break. People cut off their relatives, treat their neighbours badly, give false testimony, and hide the truth when they are called as witnesses.
In narrations from Abdullah ibn Mas'ud and Anas, the Prophet ﷺ counted these among the signs before the Hour. Books on the signs list them side by side to make one point: the decay of the last days is not only about wars and the sky. It starts at home, in the courts, and in the street where we live.
Maintain family ties even with those who cut you off, honor your neighbor, and stand firm as a witness for justice (Qur'an 4:135).
Where it sits in the sequence
The narrations do not put these in order, and many of them overlap. Sahih al-Bukhari 7121 lists several together.
Strongest narrations
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حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ مُنِيرٍ، سَمِعَ وَهْبَ بْنَ جَرِيرٍ، وَعَبْدَ الْمَلِكِ بْنَ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، قَالاَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، عَنْ عُبَيْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرِ بْنِ أَنَسٍ، عَنْ أَنَسٍ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ قَالَ سُئِلَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم عَنِ الْكَبَائِرِ قَالَ " الإِشْرَاكُ بِاللَّهِ، وَعُقُوقُ الْوَالِدَيْنِ، وَقَتْلُ النَّفْسِ، وَشَهَادَةُ الزُّورِ ". تَابَعَهُ غُنْدَرٌ وَأَبُو عَامِرٍ وَبَهْزٌ وَعَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ عَنْ شُعْبَةَ.
Narrated Anas:The Prophet (ﷺ) was asked about the great sins He said, "They are:-- (1 ) To join others in worship with Allah, (2) To be undutiful to one's parents. (3) To kill a person (which Allah has forbidden to kill) (i.e. to commit the crime of murdering). (4) And to give a false witness
حَدَّثَنِي إِسْحَاقُ، حَدَّثَنَا خَالِدٌ الْوَاسِطِيُّ، عَنِ الْجُرَيْرِيِّ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ أَبِي بَكْرَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " أَلاَ أُنَبِّئُكُمْ بِأَكْبَرِ الْكَبَائِرِ ". قُلْنَا بَلَى يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ. قَالَ " الإِشْرَاكُ بِاللَّهِ، وَعُقُوقُ الْوَالِدَيْنِ ". وَكَانَ مُتَّكِئًا فَجَلَسَ فَقَالَ " أَلاَ وَقَوْلُ الزُّورِ وَشَهَادَةُ الزُّورِ، أَلاَ وَقَوْلُ الزُّورِ وَشَهَادَةُ الزُّورِ ". فَمَا زَالَ يَقُولُهَا حَتَّى قُلْتُ لاَ يَسْكُتُ.
Narrated Abu Bakra:Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said thrice, "Shall I not inform you of the biggest of the great sins?" We said, "Yes, O Allah's Messenger (ﷺ)" He said, "To join partners in worship with Allah: to be undutiful to one's parents." The Prophet (ﷺ) sat up after he had been reclining and added, "And I warn you against giving forged statement and a false witness; I warn you against giving a forged statement and a false witness." The Prophet kept on saying that warning till we thought that he would not stop
حَدَّثَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْوَلِيدِ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ، قَالَ سَمِعْتُ أَنَسَ بْنَ مَالِكٍ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ قَالَ ذَكَرَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم الْكَبَائِرَ، أَوْ سُئِلَ عَنِ الْكَبَائِرِ فَقَالَ " الشِّرْكُ بِاللَّهِ، وَقَتْلُ النَّفْسِ، وَعُقُوقُ الْوَالِدَيْنِ ". فَقَالَ " أَلاَ أُنَبِّئُكُمْ بِأَكْبَرِ الْكَبَائِرِ ـ قَالَ ـ قَوْلُ الزُّورِ ـ أَوْ قَالَ ـ شَهَادَةُ الزُّورِ ". قَالَ شُعْبَةُ وَأَكْثَرُ ظَنِّي أَنَّهُ قَالَ " شَهَادَةُ الزُّورِ ".
Narrated Anas bin Malik:Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) mentioned the greatest sins or he was asked about the greatest sins. He said, "To join partners in worship with Allah; to kill a soul which Allah has forbidden to kill; and to be undutiful or unkind to one's parents." The Prophet (ﷺ) added, "Shall I inform you of the biggest of the great sins? That is the forged statement or the false witness." Shu`ba (the sub-narrator) states that most probably the Prophet said, "the false witness
حَدَّثَنَا إِسْحَاقُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الصَّمَدِ، حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ، حَدَّثَنَا عُبَيْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرٍ، سَمِعَ أَنَسًا ـ رضى الله عنه ـ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " الْكَبَائِرُ ". وَحَدَّثَنَا عَمْرٌو حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي بَكْرٍ عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ " أَكْبَرُ الْكَبَائِرِ الإِشْرَاكُ بِاللَّهِ وَقَتْلُ النَّفْسِ، وَعُقُوقُ الْوَالِدَيْنِ، وَقَوْلُ الزُّورِ ". أَوْ قَالَ " وَشَهَادَةُ الزُّورِ ".
Narrated Anas bin Malik:The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "The biggest of Al-Ka`ba'ir (the great sins) are (1) to join others as partners in worship with Allah, (2) to murder a human being, (3) to be undutiful to one's parents (4) and to make a false statement," or said, "to give a false witness
حَدَّثَنَا مُسَدَّدٌ، حَدَّثَنَا بِشْرُ بْنُ الْمُفَضَّلِ، حَدَّثَنَا الْجُرَيْرِيُّ، وَحَدَّثَنِي قَيْسُ بْنُ حَفْصٍ، حَدَّثَنَا إِسْمَاعِيلُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ، أَخْبَرَنَا سَعِيدٌ الْجُرَيْرِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنُ أَبِي بَكْرَةَ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ ـ رضى الله عنه ـ قَالَ قَالَ النَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم " أَكْبَرُ الْكَبَائِرِ الإِشْرَاكُ بِاللَّهِ، وَعُقُوقُ الْوَالِدَيْنِ، وَشَهَادَةُ الزُّورِ، وَشَهَادَةُ الزُّورِ ـ ثَلاَثًا ـ أَوْ قَوْلُ الزُّورِ ". فَمَا زَالَ يُكَرِّرُهَا حَتَّى قُلْنَا لَيْتَهُ سَكَتَ.
Narrated Abu Bakra:The Prophet. said, "The biggest of the great sins are: To join others in worship with Allah, to be undutiful to one's parents, and to give a false witness." He repeated it thrice, or said, "....a false statement," and kept on repeating that warning till we wished he would stop saying it. (See Hadith No.7, Vol)
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو عَاصِمٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ جُرَيْجٍ، عَنِ ابْنِ أَبِي مُلَيْكَةَ، عَنْ ذَكْوَانَ، عَنْ عَائِشَةَ ـ رضى الله عنها ـ قَالَتْ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم " الْبِكْرُ تُسْتَأْذَنُ ". قُلْتُ إِنَّ الْبِكْرَ تَسْتَحْيِي قَالَ " إِذْنُهَا صُمَاتُهَا ". وَقَالَ بَعْضُ النَّاسِ إِنْ هَوِيَ رَجُلٌ جَارِيَةً يَتِيمَةً أَوْ بِكْرًا، فَأَبَتْ فَاحْتَالَ فَجَاءَ بِشَاهِدَىْ زُورٍ عَلَى أَنَّهُ تَزَوَّجَهَا، فَأَدْرَكَتْ فَرَضِيَتِ الْيَتِيمَةُ، فَقَبِلَ الْقَاضِي شَهَادَةَ الزُّورِ، وَالزَّوْجُ يَعْلَمُ بِبُطْلاَنِ ذَلِكَ، حَلَّ لَهُ الْوَطْءُ.
Narrated `Aisha:Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "It is essential to have the consent of a virgin (for the marriage). I said, "A virgin feels shy." The Prophet; said, "Her silence means her consent." Some people said, "If a man falls in love with an orphan slave girl or a virgin and she refuses (him) and then he makes a trick by bringing two false witnesses to testify that he has married her, and then she attains the age of puberty and agrees to marry him and the judge accepts the false witness and the husband knows that the witnesses were false ones, he may consummate his marriage
Weak and ungraded reports on this sign
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Shown for study, not as established. Includes Kitab al-Fitan of Nu'aym ibn Hammad, which is ungraded and weak overall.
Weak report. Shown for study, not as established.
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْمِنْهَالِ، حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ زُرَيْعٍ، حَدَّثَنَا حَبِيبٌ الْمُعَلِّمُ، عَنْ عَمْرِو بْنِ شُعَيْبٍ، عَنْ سَعِيدِ بْنِ الْمُسَيَّبِ، : أَنَّ أَخَوَيْنِ، مِنَ الأَنْصَارِ كَانَ بَيْنَهُمَا مِيرَاثٌ فَسَأَلَ أَحَدُهُمَا صَاحِبَهُ الْقِسْمَةَ فَقَالَ : إِنْ عُدْتَ تَسْأَلُنِي عَنِ الْقِسْمَةِ فَكُلُّ مَالٍ لِي فِي رِتَاجِ الْكَعْبَةِ . فَقَالَ لَهُ عُمَرُ : إِنَّ الْكَعْبَةَ غَنِيَّةٌ عَنْ مَالِكَ، كَفِّرْ عَنْ يَمِينِكَ وَكَلِّمْ أَخَاكَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَقُولُ : " لاَ يَمِينَ عَلَيْكَ، وَلاَ نَذْرَ فِي مَعْصِيَةِ الرَّبِّ وَفِي قَطِيعَةِ الرَّحِمِ وَفِيمَا لاَ تَمْلِكُ " .
Sa'id ibn al-Musayyab said:There were two brothers among the Ansar who shared an inheritance. When one of them asked the other for the portion due to him, he replied: If you ask me again for the portion due to you, all my property will be devoted to the decoration of the Ka'bah. Umar said to him: The Ka'bah does not need your property. Make atonement for your oath and speak to your brother. I heard the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) say: An oath or vow to disobey the Lord, or to break ties of relationship or about something over which one has no control is not binding on you
Weak report. Shown for study, not as established.
حَدَّثَنَا يَحْيَى بْنُ مُوسَى الْبَلْخِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ، حَدَّثَنِي سُفْيَانُ، - يَعْنِي الْعُصْفُرِيَّ - عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ النُّعْمَانِ الأَسَدِيِّ، عَنْ خُرَيْمِ بْنِ فَاتِكٍ، قَالَ صَلَّى رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم صَلاَةَ الصُّبْحِ فَلَمَّا انْصَرَفَ قَامَ قَائِمًا فَقَالَ " عُدِلَتْ شَهَادَةُ الزُّورِ بِالإِشْرَاكِ بِاللَّهِ " . ثَلاَثَ مِرَارٍ ثُمَّ قَرَأَ { فَاجْتَنِبُوا الرِّجْسَ مِنَ الأَوْثَانِ وَاجْتَنِبُوا قَوْلَ الزُّورِ * حُنَفَاءَ لِلَّهِ غَيْرَ مُشْرِكِينَ بِهِ } .
Narrated Khuraym Ibn Fatik: The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) offered the morning prayer. When he finished it, he stood up and said three times: False witness has been made equivalent to attributing a partner to Allah. He then recited: "So avoid the abomination of idols and avoid speaking falsehood as people pure of faith to Allah, not associating anything with Him
Weak report. Shown for study, not as established.
حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدُ بْنُ مَنِيعٍ، حَدَّثَنَا مَرْوَانُ بْنُ مُعَاوِيَةَ، عَنْ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ زِيَادٍ الأَسَدِيِّ، عَنْ فَاتِكِ بْنِ فَضَالَةَ، عَنْ أَيْمَنَ بْنِ خُرَيْمٍ، أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَامَ خَطِيبًا فَقَالَ " يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ عُدِلَتْ شَهَادَةُ الزُّورِ إِشْرَاكًا بِاللَّهِ " . ثُمَّ قَرَأَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم : (وَاجْتَنِبُوا الرِّجْسَ مِنَ الأَوْثَانِ وَاجْتَنِبُوا قَوْلَ الزُّورِ ) . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى وَهَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ إِنَّمَا نَعْرِفُهُ مِنْ حَدِيثِ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ زِيَادٍ وَاخْتَلَفُوا فِي رِوَايَةِ هَذَا الْحَدِيثِ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ زِيَادٍ . وَلاَ نَعْرِفُ لأَيْمَنَ بْنِ خُرَيْمٍ سَمَاعًا مِنَ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم .
Ayman bin Khuraim narrated that the Prophet (s.a.w) stood to give a Khutbah and said:"O you people False witness is tantamount to Shirk with Allah" Then the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w)recited: So shun the Rijs of the idols, and shun false speech
Weak report. Shown for study, not as established.
حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ بْنُ حُمَيْدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عُبَيْدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ، وَهُوَ ابْنُ زِيَادٍ الْعُصْفُرِيُّ عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ حَبِيبِ بْنِ النُّعْمَانِ الأَسَدِيِّ، عَنْ خُرَيْمِ بْنِ فَاتِكٍ الأَسَدِيِّ، أَنَّ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم صَلَّى صَلاَةَ الصُّبْحِ فَلَمَّا انْصَرَفَ قَامَ قَائِمًا فَقَالَ " عُدِلَتْ شَهَادَةُ الزُّورِ بِالشِّرْكِ بِاللَّهِ " . ثَلاَثَ مَرَّاتٍ ثُمَّ تَلاَ هَذِهِ الآيَةَ (وَاجْتَنِبُوا قَوْلَ الزُّورِ ) إِلَى آخِرِ الآيَةِ . قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا عِنْدِي أَصَحُّ . وَخُرَيْمُ بْنُ فَاتِكٍ لَهُ صُحْبَةٌ وَقَدْ رَوَى عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم أَحَادِيثَ وَهُوَ مَشْهُورٌ .
Khuraim bin Fatik Al-Asadi narrated that the Messenger of Allah (s.a.w) performed the Subh (Fajr)prayer. Then when he turned he got up to stand and said:"O you people! False witness is tantamount to Shirk with Allah."Saying it three times, then he recited this Ayah And shun false speech Until the end of the Ayah
Comparative Traditions
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The Prophecy of the Seeress: The Age of Axes and Wolves, Fimbulwinter, the Black Sun, and the Renewed Earth
The Völuspá is the supreme masterpiece of Old Norse mythic eschatology. The Seeress (Völva) prophesies the moral degeneration of the cosmos before Ragnarök: 'Brothers will fight and kill each other, sisters' children will defile kinship; an axe-age, a sword-age, shields are splintered, a wind-age, a wolf-age, before the world falls.' The Great Winter (Fimbulwinter) descends, the cosmic wolf Fenrir breaks free and swallows the sun, the Midgard serpent churns the sea, the stars vanish, and fire engulfs the tree of life (Yggdrasil). Yet after the cosmic conflagration, a new green earth emerges from the sea, where crops grow without sowing and the righteous dwell in eternal peace.
Brœðr muno beriaz ok at bǫnom verða[z], muno systrungar sifiom spilla... Sól tér sortna, sígr fold í mar, hverfa af himni heiðar stiǫrnur; geisar eimi við aldrnara, leikr hár hiti við himin siálfan.
Brothers will fight and become each other's slayers, sisters' sons will violate kinship... The sun turns black, earth sinks into the sea, the bright stars vanish from the sky; fire rages against the firmament, high heat plays against heaven itself.
What scholars have said
Scholars cite it as having appeared
Allamah Shamsuddin Al-Saffarinid. 1188 AH (1114-1188 AH)
Lists the severing of kinship ties (qati'at al-rahim), bad treatment of neighbors, proliferation of false testimony (shahadat al-zur), and concealment of truthful witness among the ongoing moral signs before the Hour.
al-Buhur al-Zakhira fi Ulum al-Akhira
Present-day data
These numbers show the world today beside the narration. They do not decide whether the sign has appeared; that is shown only through named scholars, in the Scholars' views tab.
Ibn Mas'ud reports that before the Hour, greetings will be given only to acquaintances, trade will spread until a wife helps her husband in it, ties of kinship will be cut, false testimony will be given and true testimony hidden (Musnad Ahmad 3870); Abdullah ibn Amr's report adds bad neighbourliness (Musnad Ahmad 6514). No survey counts severed kinship or false witness, so the records below are dated news reports and court findings, not a measure of the narration.
Narrations behind this panel: Musnad Ahmad 3870 · al-Mustadrak (al-Hakim) 7043 · Jami' at-Tirmidhi 2299 · Musnad Ahmad 6514
What the commentators said it means
- 'Shall I not tell you of the greatest of major sins?' He ﷺ named associating partners with Allah and disobeying parents, then sat up and said: 'and false speech and false testimony', and kept repeating it: Abu Bakrah's narration (Sahih al-Bukhari 2654).
- 'By Allah, he does not believe' three times: 'the one whose neighbour is not safe from his harm': Abu Shurayh's narration (Sahih al-Bukhari 6016).
- 'The one who severs ties of kinship will not enter Paradise': Jubayr ibn Mut'im's narration (Sahih al-Bukhari 5984, Sahih Muslim 2556).
- Greeting only those one knows is the opposite of the sunnah of greeting 'those you know and those you do not' (Sahih al-Bukhari 12): Ibn Hajar, Fath al-Bari.
News and journals
Dated reports from news outlets, research journals and official bodies, each with its source.
For hire in the court area
Around Dhaka's lower courts, people stand in for others and court papers are forged for a fee.
- A fraud case from Uttara East: a woman surrendered in court in place of the real accused, a relative, and was paid to do it. Police confirmed it and the court ordered action (Jugantor, July 2026).
- Jugantor found a ring of photocopy shops, middlemen, some lawyers and court staff selling warrants, summonses, affidavits and certified copies with judges' forged signatures.
- Cox's Bazar, September 2024: a woman took Tk 100 to appear in court under another woman's name; the magistrate sent both to jail on a fraud case (Jago News).
- TIB's executive director told Jugantor that only end-to-end digital court records can cut out the middlemen.
Jugantor, 'ঢাকার আদালতপাড়ায় ভাড়ায় মেলে আসামি', 28 Jul 2026 ↗Jugantor, 'টাকায় মেলে বিচারকের স্বাক্ষর', 28 Jul 2026 ↗Jago News, 'আদালতে শরিফা সেজে শারমিন, দুই নারী কারাগারে', Sep 2024 ↗
as of 2026-10-29
Witnesses who saw nothing
Charge sheets name eyewitnesses to events they never saw, sometimes against accused people who were already dead.
- A man named as an eyewitness in a 2018 Dhaka case told reporters he first heard of it from them: 'How can one be named as a witness to an incident when one does not have any idea about that event?' (TBS, 2019).
- In the same cases, people were charged a year, five days, even eleven years after they had died.
- Three witness statements in another case, recorded on different dates, matched word for word, and the witnesses could not be found at their addresses (Daily Star, 2019).
- Witnesses in other cases said police got their signatures through intimidation; police said they signed voluntarily (Prothom Alo).
The Business Standard, 'Witnesses unaware of what they have witnessed!', 9 Oct 2019 ↗The Daily Star, 'Exactly the same, every word of it!', 2019 ↗Prothom Alo, 'BNP leaders-activists charged in 30 fictitious cases in 36 days' ↗
as of 2026-10-29 · reviewed monthly
When courts push back
In the region, some courts now treat false witness as a crime, not a routine part of trials.
- Pakistan, March 2019: the Supreme Court ruled that a witness who lies on a material point is to be tried for perjury, and that his whole testimony falls ('false in one, false in all').
- 'A judicial system which permits deliberate falsehood is doomed to fail': Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa.
- By November 2019, action had been taken against 15 false witnesses; an investigating officer who brings a false witness is to be held equally responsible.
- India, July 2025: eight people arrested in Bengaluru for standing surety in court on forged documents.
Geo News, Supreme Court orders perjury proceedings, 20 Mar 2019 ↗The News, 'False witness producing IO to be deemed abettor', 24 Nov 2019 ↗Deccan Herald, 'Eight arrested for using fake documents to give court sureties', 16 Jul 2025 ↗
as of 2026-10-29
Neighbours over a strip of land
Many killings in Bangladesh start as quarrels over land, walls and boundaries with the people next door.
- Netrokona, July 2026: a 35-year-old man found with his throat slit at home; his family told police of a long land dispute with a neighbour.
- Chuadanga, March 2026: a man beaten to death when his cousins objected to his brother building a wall on his own land.
- Sandwip, September 2025: a six-year-old killed on his way home from madrasa by a man with a grudge against his father.
- Police HQ: 55.5% of murders in March-April 2026 came from earlier enmity, mostly between people who know each other.
bdnews24, 'Police recover throat-slit body of man in Netrokona', 26 Jul 2026 ↗bdnews24, 'Chuadanga man killed amid row over building wall', 25 Mar 2026 ↗bdnews24, 'Man kills 6-year-old over feud with father: police', 18 Sep 2025 ↗UNB, 'Police reject alarm over 605 killings, cite historical crime trends', 9 Jun 2026 (Police HQ data) ↗
as of 2026-10-29
Kin against kin
Inheritance and shared land turn brothers and cousins against each other.
- Dinajpur, May 2026: two sons stabbed their father and a half-brother to death in a dispute over 16 bighas of ancestral land.
- Naogaon, 2026: a couple and two children found dead at home; police suspect a family land dispute and questioned relatives.
- Kurigram, November 2025: three killed when four cousins who had bought 18 decimals of land together fell out.
- Ukhiya, April 2025: a mosque khatib and two of his cousins killed in a clash between cousins over land.
- Police HQ keeps no separate count of killings within one family; Prothom Alo counted 47 dead in 18 such attacks in six months of 2026.
Dhaka Tribune, 'Two brothers kill father, sibling over land dispute in Dinajpur', 12 May 2026 ↗UNB, 'SP suspects land dispute behind Naogaon murders' ↗bdnews24, '3 die in clash over Kurigram land feud', 30 Nov 2025 ↗bdnews24, '3 die in clash over Cox's Bazar land dispute', 6 Apr 2025 ↗Prothom Alo, 'Horrific murders one after another across the country', 26 Aug 2026 ↗
as of 2026-10-29
Read with care
- These are reported cases, not a count of false witness or severed kinship; most come from Bangladesh because that is where the site is edited, not because the sign belongs to one country. The site does not declare the sign fulfilled (rule 1).
- Police motives are first findings and may change at trial; accused people are innocent until a court decides, so no victim or accused is named here. False-case claims in political cases come from parties on both sides.
- Loneliness and family-structure statistics measure other things and would turn the sign into a verdict on particular societies, so they are left out.
Draft: figures and wording await a researcher's check and the scholar board.