Description de l'Égypte
"Umm al-'Amad" was mentioned in the Ottoman defter for the year 1555–6, as "Mezraa" land, (that is, cultivated land), located in the "Nahiya" of Tabariyya of the "Liwa" of Safad. The land was designated as Ziamet land. In 1799 it appeared as a village Zebed on the Carte de l'Égypte (Description de l'Égypte) of Pierre Jacotin, and in the 1880s as Umm el Amed () on the PEF Survey of Palestine. The 1799 Jacotin map had not surveyed the area; it was drawn based on the notes of an inhabitant of Shefa-ʻAmr and some parts are incorrect.