diff --git a/stubs/redis/@tests/test_cases/check_xadd.py b/stubs/redis/@tests/test_cases/check_xadd.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e4ce964b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/stubs/redis/@tests/test_cases/check_xadd.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+from typing import TypedDict
+
+import redis
+
+
+class RedisStreamData(TypedDict):
+    foo: str
+    bar: bytes
+
+
+def check_xadd(r: redis.Redis[str]) -> None:
+    # check that TypedDicts are accepted for the `fields` parameter of `xadd()`
+    #
+    # N.B. the `pyright: ignore` is not part of the test,
+    # it's just because the return type is currently unannotated
+    r.xadd("stream", fields=RedisStreamData({"foo": "bar", "bar": b"foo"}))  # pyright: ignore[reportUnknownMemberType]
diff --git a/stubs/redis/redis/commands/core.pyi b/stubs/redis/redis/commands/core.pyi
index d4c8e2508..e921f1a64 100644
--- a/stubs/redis/redis/commands/core.pyi
+++ b/stubs/redis/redis/commands/core.pyi
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import builtins
-from _typeshed import Incomplete
+from _typeshed import Incomplete, SupportsItems
 from collections.abc import AsyncIterator, Awaitable, Callable, Iterable, Iterator, Mapping, Sequence
 from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from typing import Any, Generic, Literal, TypeVar, overload
@@ -862,7 +862,8 @@ class StreamCommands:
     def xadd(
         self,
         name: KeyT,
-        fields: Mapping[bytes | memoryview | str | float, bytes | memoryview | str | float],
+        # Only accepts dict objects, but for variance reasons we use a looser annotation
+        fields: SupportsItems[bytes | memoryview | str | float, Any],
         id: str | int | bytes | memoryview = "*",
         maxlen=None,
         approximate: bool = True,
@@ -928,7 +929,8 @@ class AsyncStreamCommands:
     async def xadd(
         self,
         name: KeyT,
-        fields: Mapping[bytes | memoryview | str | float, bytes | memoryview | str | float],
+        # Only accepts dict objects, but for variance reasons we use a looser annotation
+        fields: SupportsItems[bytes | memoryview | str | float, Any],
         id: str | int | bytes | memoryview = "*",
         maxlen=None,
         approximate: bool = True,