[citation needed] The village was located 11 kilometres northeast of Safed, on a slightly elevated hill in the southwestern corner of the al-Hula Plain.

[7] The Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi noted its ancient buildings and praised one of them, which he claimed had originally been a temple and perhaps was built by Solomon.

[9] In the second half of the 19th century, after the Algerian followers of Abdelkader El Djezairi had been defeated by the French in Algeria, they sought refuge in another part of the Ottoman Empire.

[6][14] On the night of 12–13 March 1948, a Palmah strike against Husseiniyya resulted in a number of houses being blown up, and several dozen Arabs, who included members of an Iraqi volunteer contingent and women and children, were killed and another 20 wounded.

[16] Some of the villagers who escaped the massacres may have remained or returned in subsequent days; according to Israeli military intelligence, the residents of al-Husayniyya did not leave until 21 April.