ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥabīb al-Fihrī (Arabic: عبدالرحمن بن حبيب الفهري), called al-Ṣiqlabī (الصقلبي), was an Abbasid-appointed governor of al-Andalus (Spain) in the 770s.
Ibn Ḥabīb's decision to target Barcelona when the centre of Umayyad power, Córdoba, lay closer to Tudmīr is difficult to explain.
The 11th-century Collection of Anecdotes on the Conquest of al-Andalus places Ibn Ḥabīb's arrival shortly after ʿAbd al-Raḥmān I had defeated a Yemeni rebellion in Seville, so perhaps he judged that his base of support near Córdoba had been too weakened for an immediate attack on the centre.
[5] Some modern historians have linked Ibn Ḥabīb to the embassy sent by al-Aʿrābī of Barcelona and Ḥusayn of Zaragoza to Charlemagne, king of the Franks, in 777.
This search for an alliance abroad against ʿAbd al-Raḥmān I precipitated the Frankish campaign that ended in disaster at the battle of Roncevaux Pass.