[4] Nearby localities include Kufeir to the south, Zababdeh to the southwest, Qabatiya to the west, Umm at-Tut to the north, Jalqamus and al-Mughayyir to the northeast and Raba to the southeast.

[4] The northern and westerns parts of Telfit contain ruins dating to the Byzantine[4][5] and Early Islamic periods between the 5th-8th centuries.

[6] In 1838, during the Ottoman era, ‘’Telfit’’ was noted as a Muslim village in the Haritheh area, north of Nablus.

[7] The PEF's Survey of Western Palestine noted in 1882 that the place (then called "Khurbet Telfit") had modern masonry.

Most of the village's residents are descendants of refugees from Arabia and Turkmen from Central Asia, who work as land tenants.