Musa ibn Musa al-Qasawi

Likewise it is claimed that in 839 his son Furtun ibn Musa led a campaign that resulted in a rout of the "king of the Gallaecians", "Loderik" or "Luzriq"[1] and he leveled the defenses of Álava.

This led to a reprisal campaign under the leadership of the emir's son, Mutarrif, and general Abd al-Wahid ibn Yazid Iskandarani.

Musa submitted and in November led his troops to Seville, helping to defeat a large army of Viking raiders who had sacked the city.

[3] In 854, Toledo rebelled, supported by Ordoño I of Asturias and García Íñiguez, and the emir Muhammad launched a punitive campaign which ended in the Battle of Guadalacete, Musa apparently participating on Córdoba's behalf.

The next year(855) Musa led a Cordoban attack on Álava, in the southeastern section of the Kingdom of Asturias,[4] and in 856 he launched an independent expedition against Barcelona and Terrassa.

[5] She was not his only wife, as he also married a cousin Maymuna (Arabic: ميمونة), daughter of his paternal uncle Zahir ibn Furtun and mother of his younger son Isma'il.

The death of Musa led to a decade-long disappearance of the family from the political scene but it returned to rule over a shrinking territory for another half-century.

His pseudo-autonomy from a Córdoba unable to maintain direct control foreshadowed the Muwallad rebels of the early 10th century and the later Taifa kingdoms.