It is bordered by Mas-ha and Sha'arei Tikva to the east, Az Zawiya to the south, Oranit to the west, and Beit ‘Amin and ‘Izbat Salman to the north.

[5] Potsherds from the Iron Age II, Persian, Hellenistic, Byzantine, Byzantine/Umayyad, Crusader/Ayyubid and Mamluk eras have been found.

The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3%, on wheat, barley, summer crops, olives, goats and beehives; a total of 4,200 akçe.

[9] When the French explorer Victor Guérin visited the place in 1870 it was described it as a large Arab village, then deserted.

Many small, square houses were still partly standing, and near the mosque he noticed old columns and large stone from older buildings.