[3] Archeological findings from Kafr Zibad include potsherds from the Byzantine period[4] and a relief of a six-armed menorah.

[5][6] Kafr Zibad was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared under that name in the tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Bani Sa'b of the Liwa of Nablus.

[8] In the 1860s, the Ottoman authorities granted the village an agricultural plot of land called Ghabat Kafr Zibad in the former confines of the Forest of Arsur (Ar.

[11] In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine noted at Kafr Zibad: "A village of moderate size on a small plateau, overhanging the valley on the north of it.

A steep ascent, with a cistern on the north, on the south a fig-garden, and beyond this a few olives, where the tents of the Survey party were pitched.

There is a historical mosque dated to the times of Caliph Omar Ibn al-Khattab, and there are a police center and sport club.