diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7dc3ca9cf..deb3ecd40 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 - superset: Bump certifi to `2026.10.23` and uv to `0.13.4` ([#1715]).
 - opensearch-dashboards: Use the system trust store for Node.js instead of its bundled root certificates ([#1715]).
 - spark-connect-client: Point grpcio to the system trust store ([#1715]).
+- hbase: Add `hadoop-azure` to the HBase `lib` directory again, so that `abfs://` works. This regressed in 26.7.0 with [#1511] ([#1731]).
 
 ### Removed
 
@@ -192,6 +193,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 [#1725]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/1725
 [#1727]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/1727
 [#1728]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/1728
+[#1731]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/1731
 
 ## [26.7.0] - 2026-07-21
 
diff --git a/hbase/Dockerfile b/hbase/Dockerfile
index 0d60e847b..cfb0160a5 100644
--- a/hbase/Dockerfile
+++ b/hbase/Dockerfile
@@ -103,6 +103,14 @@ COPY --chown=${STACKABLE_USER_UID}:0 --from=hbase-operator-tools /stackable/bin/
 COPY --chown=${STACKABLE_USER_UID}:0 --from=hadoop-s3-builder /stackable/bin/export-snapshot-to-s3 /stackable/bin/export-snapshot-to-s3
 COPY --chown=${STACKABLE_USER_UID}:0 --from=hadoop-s3-builder /stackable/hadoop/share/hadoop/tools/lib/ /stackable/hadoop/share/hadoop/tools/lib/
 
+# Copy hadoop-azure to /stackable/hbase-${HBASE_VERSION}/lib which is on the classpath, in contrast
+# to /stackable/hadoop/share/hadoop/tools/lib above, which is only used by export-snapshot-to-s3.
+# hadoop-azure-${HADOOP}.jar contains the AzureBlobFileSystem which is required by
+# hadoop-common-${HADOOP}.jar if the scheme of a file system is "abfs://".
+COPY --chown=${STACKABLE_USER_UID}:0 --chmod=664 --from=hadoop-builder \
+  /stackable/hadoop-cloud-libraries/hadoop-azure-${HADOOP_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE_VERSION}.jar \
+  /stackable/hbase-${HBASE_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE_VERSION}/lib/
+
 COPY --chown=${STACKABLE_USER_UID}:0 --from=hbase-opa-authorizer /stackable/hbase-opa-authorizer-${HBASE_HBASE_OPA_AUTHORIZER_VERSION}-src.tar.gz /stackable
 COPY --chown=${STACKABLE_USER_UID}:0 --from=hbase-opa-authorizer /stackable/hbase-opa-authorizer/target/hbase-opa-authorizer*.jar /stackable/hbase-${HBASE_VERSION}-stackable${RELEASE_VERSION}/lib