Habib ibn al-Muhallab al-Azdi (Arabic: حبيب بن المهلب الأزدي) (died 720) was an Umayyad provincial governor and military commander, and a member of the Muhallabid family.
[4] When al-Muhallab died in 702, Habib was present to receive his father's testament; afterwards he took command of the army and brought it to his younger brother Yazid, who was recognized by al-Hajjaj as the new governor of Khurasan.
After Sulayman's death in 717, however, the Muhallabids again suffered a reversal of fortune; the new caliph Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz decided to dismiss Yazid from Iraq and threw him into prison.
When news of Yazid's escape reached Basra, the city's governor Adi ibn Artah al-Fazari ordered the arrest of the Muhallabids as a precautionary measure.
When news arrived that an army under the command of Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik was advancing from Syria, Habib advised his brother to either retreat to Fars, where he could set up a secure stronghold in the mountains, or to send some of his forces to the Jazira and engage the enemy there; Yazid, however, rejected both of these proposals and insisted on remaining in Iraq.