[4] Because of his tomb which is venerated by the local inhabitants, religious festivals were held in the village and the old mosque was built adjacent to it also in the 14th century.

[5] Potsherds from the Mamluk era has been found in the village, and the mosque has a vaulted burial chamber, and an Arabic inscription from AH 876 (1460 C.E.).

Situated between Dayr Ghassāna in the south and the present Route 5 in the north, and between Majdal Yābā in the west and Jammā‘īn, Mardā and Kifl Ḥāris in the east, this area served, according to historian Roy Marom, "as a buffer zone between the political-economic-social units of the Jerusalem and the Nablus regions.

On the political level, it suffered from instability due to the migration of the Bedouin tribes and the constant competition among local clans for the right to collect taxes on behalf of the Ottoman authorities.

[9] In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village with a population of 52 households in the nahiya (sub-district) of Jamma'in al-Awwal, subordinate to Nablus.

The Ahmad and Omar clans began to work the fields west of the village where the land was suitable for agriculture in the 1930s.

However, in the 1950s, to avoid continuous long-distance travels, the Ahmad and Omar clans established the villages of Azzun Atma and Beit Amin, respectively.