Safad al-Battikh (Arabic: صفد البطيخ)[2] is a municipality in Nabatiye Governorate, in the Bint Jbeil District of southern Lebanon, about 111 kilometres (69 mi) from Beirut.

The village is situated in the north eastern outskirts of the town of Tebnine, in the heart of the Lebanese Shia Muslim community of Jabal Amel.

In the 1596 Ottoman tax records, the village, named صفد البطيخ (same as today but some history books transliterate differently such as Safad al-Battih), was located in the Ottoman nahiya (subdistrict) of Tibnin under the Liwa of Safad, with a population of 10 households and 2 bachelors, all Muslim.

[3][4] In 1856 it was named Safed on Kiepert's map of Palestine/Lebanon published that year,[5] while in 1875, Victor Guérin passed by and noted: "to my left, on a high hill, the small village of Safed el-Bathikha, inhabited by both Métualis and Christians.

"[6] In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described the village (which it called Safed el Battîkh): "A village, built of stone, containing about 100 Metawileh and fifty Christians, situated on hill-top, surrounded by arable land.