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treats his relatives with kindness, though not fully, he will still not be regarded to have severed relations.
(Tafĥīm-ul-Bukhārī, vol. 9, pp. 221)
Here is an informative Fatwā extracted from pages 647 and 648 of the 13th volume of Fatāwā Razawiyyaĥ:
How is it to say the sentence ‘you are not my brother’ to a real brother?
Question: If Zayd says the sentence ‘you are not my brother’ to his real brother in a gathering reciting Kalimaĥ loudly, conspiring against him; does Sharī’aĥ require Zayd to pay any type of expiation in this situation? What and how much expiation does he have to pay, if obligatory?
Answer: If his brother has treated him unfairly contrary to brotherhood, then he will not be taken to task because what he has said does not mean the denial of reality but that of the brotherly favour, i.e. he said this sentence because his brother did not treat him the way he should have done. If it is not so and Zayd said this without any Shar’ī reason, then he has committed three grave sins: (1) A blatant lie (2) Severing of relations (3) Hurting a Muslim’s feelings. It is Farḍ for him to repent and obligatory to apologize to his brother. وَاللّٰهُ تَعَالٰي اَعۡلَمُ
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