diff --git a/src/art.cpp b/src/art.cpp
index 8c3b99ad..ee0fb53a 100644
--- a/src/art.cpp
+++ b/src/art.cpp
@@ -1031,7 +1031,7 @@ bool validate_and_add_leaf(art_leaf* leaf,
         posting_t::merge({prev_leaf->values, leaf->values}, leaf_ids);
 
         bool found = false;
-        for (uint32_t i = 0; i < leaf_ids.size() && !found; i++) {
+        for (uint32_t i = 0; i < leaf_ids.size() && filter_result_iterator.is_valid && !found; i++) {
             found = (filter_result_iterator.valid(leaf_ids[i]) == 1);
         }
 
diff --git a/test/collection_filtering_test.cpp b/test/collection_filtering_test.cpp
index 1628c2dc..c644d547 100644
--- a/test/collection_filtering_test.cpp
+++ b/test/collection_filtering_test.cpp
@@ -2628,4 +2628,46 @@ TEST_F(CollectionFilteringTest, ComplexFilterQuery) {
     }
 
     collectionManager.drop_collection("ComplexFilterQueryCollection");
+}
+
+TEST_F(CollectionFilteringTest, PrefixSearchWithFilter) {
+    std::ifstream infile(std::string(ROOT_DIR)+"test/documents.jsonl");
+    std::vector<field> search_fields = {
+            field("title", field_types::STRING, false),
+            field("points", field_types::INT32, false)
+    };
+
+    query_fields = {"title"};
+    sort_fields = { sort_by(sort_field_const::text_match, "DESC"), sort_by("points", "DESC") };
+
+    auto collection = collectionManager.create_collection("collection", 4, search_fields, "points").get();
+
+    std::string json_line;
+
+    // dummy record for record id 0: to make the test record IDs to match with line numbers
+    json_line = "{\"points\":10,\"title\":\"z\"}";
+    collection->add(json_line);
+
+    while (std::getline(infile, json_line)) {
+        collection->add(json_line);
+    }
+
+    infile.close();
+
+    std::vector<std::string> facets;
+    auto results = collection->search("what ex", query_fields, "points: >10", facets, sort_fields, {0}, 10, 1, MAX_SCORE, {true}, 10,
+                                 spp::sparse_hash_set<std::string>(),
+                                 spp::sparse_hash_set<std::string>(), 10, "", 30, 5,
+                                 "", 10).get();
+    ASSERT_EQ(7, results["hits"].size());
+    std::vector<std::string> ids = {"6", "12", "19", "22", "13", "8", "15"};
+
+    for(size_t i = 0; i < results["hits"].size(); i++) {
+        nlohmann::json result = results["hits"].at(i);
+        std::string result_id = result["document"]["id"];
+        std::string id = ids.at(i);
+        ASSERT_STREQ(id.c_str(), result_id.c_str());
+    }
+
+    collectionManager.drop_collection("collection");
 }
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