[3] Pottery sherds from the Iron Age II, Byzantine, early Muslim and Medieval era have been found here.

The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3% on wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, beehives and/or goats, in addition to occasional revenues, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, and a tax on Muslims in the Nablus area; a total of 9,372 akçe.

[6][7] In 1870, Victor Guérin noted “a small square in front of the mosque paved by ancient slabs” in the village, which he called Deir Ech-Cheraf.

[9] In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Deir Sheraf: "A village of small size, situate[d] in a hollow.

Above it, beside the road on the east, is a good spring, apparently perennial, and round this are vegetable gardens irrigated with its waters.