Habib Hamarashid Wahab was born in 1939 in Biyara sub-district of Halabja governorate. He was a resident of Biyra and worked in gardening, he only got primary school education, and was married and his wife was Zanuba Abdul-Kadir they had three sons and two daughters, two of whom were martyred by the name of Sahib in 1988 and Hawraman in 1995.
He became a peshmarga in the Hawraman force of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, in which Nadir Hawrami was the commander of the force at the time. In 1979, with a regiment of Peshmerga fighters who went to Hawraman region for partisan activities, they got ambushed by the Iraqi regime soldiers and collaborators (Jashs) at the time, and after the confrontation, Habib Hamarashid Wahab was seriously injured and his companions transported him to Iran for treatment, but because of the severity of the wound, he was martyred after remaining for only one day in Tehran hospital.