[3] The remains of a Crusader church was found by Victor Guérin in 1863; "today divided into ten or so rooms [..] inhabited by a number of families.

[6] In 1882, SWP observed "foundations of a wall of good squared masonry, not drafted," south of the village.

[7] The village was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers under the name of Rafidya, as being in the nahiyah of Jabal Qubal, part of Nablus Sanjak.

The villagers paid a fixed tax-rate of 33,3 % on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and/or beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 2000 akçe.

They ceded it to an Arab Christian family with Ghassanid origins from al-Karak, in modern-day Jordan in the 17th century.

[10] A map from Napoleon's invasion of 1799 by Pierre Jacotin named it Rafidiyeh, as a village by the road from Jaffa to Nablus.

[4] In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village with a population of 70 households in the nahiya (sub-district) of Jamma'in al-Awwal, subordinate to Nablus.

In 1907, the Rosary sisterhood arrived in Nablus and Rafidia to serve the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and assist the priest in the service of the church by visiting the families and teaching children.