section_heading: Povijest
paragraph_text: In 1596 Da'el appeared in the Ottoman tax registers as  Da'il and was part of the nahiya of Bani Malik al-Asraf in the Qada Hawran. It had an entirely Muslim population consisting of 42 households and 20 bachelors. They paid a fixed tax-rate of 40% on agricultural products, including on wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and/or beehives, in addition to on a water mill; a total of 16,000 akçe.<ref>Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 214.