ANSWER:

If the land was only put in your brother’s name to avoid taxes and not genuinely gifted with possession, then it is inheritance and must be divided among all heirs.

Your brother keeping it all is haram and unjust and he is a thief for doing this. All what he gets from this land is haram money and will burn in hell for that, in sha Allah unless he repents and distributes it to the heirs. 

QUESTION: My father bought a land while he was alive and registered it in my brother’s name in order to avoid taxes. Now that my father passed away, my brother won’t split it between the siblings as he claims that the land belong to him. What is the ruling on this?

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QUESTION: My mother bought a property before marriage with her own money which my father forced her to sell and he bought another apartment with that money. Now that apartment is on rent and my father takes the rent money. Since the property is on my mother’s name, is my father legally and islamically allowed to take the rent himself and not give it to my mother?