[8] In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and in the 1596 tax-records it appeared as duhaniyya, located in the Nahiya of Quds of the Liwa of Al-Quds.

[7] In 1838, Edward Robinson described Deir Dibwan as being "tolerably wealthy", and reportedly the producer of great quantities of figs.

[13] The Victor Guérin visited the village in July 1863, and described it as having five hundred inhabitants, situated on a rocky plateau.

The highest point of the plateau was occupied by the remains of an old construction, which people referred to as Ed-Deir (the Monastery).

[22] Of this, 5,052 were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 10,695 for cereals,[23] while 164 dunams were classified as built-up areas.

[26] In May 2024 Israeli settlers attacked Deir Dibwan from the east, burning tents and sheep pens.

From the Israeli government-commissioned Sasson Report it was concluded that more than 4 million NIS of public funds were illegally invested in the outpost.

According to local villagers, Ammar ibn Yasir passed through the area during one of his raids and stopped to pray.

The tomb is a pilgrimage site for the Bedouin tribes of Ka'abneh and Jahalin, as well as villages east of the watershed.

In 1999, villagers built a mosque in his honor, and in 2016, the site was renovated and turned into an amusement park named al-Biyara.