The Banu Jalaf was a family that ruled Huesca

Huesca

Huesca is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the autonomous community of Aragon. It is also the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and the comarca of Hoya de Huesca....

 and the region called Barbitanya (Barbastro

Barbastro

Barbastro is a city in the Somontano county, province of Huesca, Spain...

) on the Iberian Peninsula

Iberian Peninsula

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 from about 802

802

Year 802 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.-Europe:* October 31 – Irene is deposed as Empress of Byzantium, replaced by Nicephorus I, and banished to Lesbos....

 to 862

862

Year 862 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.- Europe :* Ashot I becomes the first king of Armenia's Bagratuni dynasty.* Aed Finliath is crowned High King of Ireland....

, and Barbitanya alone from 862

862

Year 862 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.- Europe :* Ashot I becomes the first king of Armenia's Bagratuni dynasty.* Aed Finliath is crowned High King of Ireland....

 to about 882

882

Year 882 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar.- Europe :* Carloman, King of the West Franks, becomes sole king upon the death of his brother....

.

The first ruler was Jalaf Ibn Rashid

Jalaf Ibn Rashid

Jalaf ibn Rashid ibn Asad was a lieutenant of Bahlul Ibn Marzuq, the rebel leader of the Zaragoza region in Spain, who conquered Huesca in 800.When Bahlul was defeated by troops sent by the Spanish Wāli and fled to Pallars, he was killed by Jalaf ibn Rashid...

 (802

802

Year 802 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.-Europe:* October 31 – Irene is deposed as Empress of Byzantium, replaced by Nicephorus I, and banished to Lesbos....

), who settled with his clan in the village they named Midayar, modern Barbastro. The city castle (Barbastra) was the centre of the Muslim domain

Al-Andalus

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 in the region.

Jalaf died before 862

862

Year 862 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.- Europe :* Ashot I becomes the first king of Armenia's Bagratuni dynasty.* Aed Finliath is crowned High King of Ireland....

. In this year the government of Huesca was conferred on the Banu Qasi

Banu Qasi

The Banu Qasi, Banu Kasi, Beni Casi or Banu Musa were a Basque Muladi dynasty that ruled the upper Ebro valley in the 9th century, before being displaced in the first quarter of the 10th century.-Dynastic beginnings:...

 family. His son Abd Allah ibn Jalaf then ruled Barbitanya. In the 870s, he allied himself with rebel Isma'il ibn Musa ibn Qasi, to whom Abd Allah married his daughter. In retaliation, at the end of the decade Muhammad I of Córdoba

Muhammad I of Córdoba

Muhammad I was the Umayyad emir of Córdoba from 852 to 886 in the Al-Andalus .-Biography:Muhammad was born in Córdoba...

entered Huesca and killed Abd Allah and all of his children, and took possession of the Banu Jalaf lands.