diff --git a/compiler/nifbackend.nim b/compiler/nifbackend.nim
index b08e3492e6..7c17a43615 100644
--- a/compiler/nifbackend.nim
+++ b/compiler/nifbackend.nim
@@ -157,6 +157,14 @@ proc ownsRuntimeRoutine(s: PSym; modPos: int): bool =
   ## - generic instances (`sfFromGeneric`): emitted by demand, deduped by merge;
   ## - `importc`/`compileTime`/`error`/forward sentinels and meta signatures:
   ##   not real codegen targets.
+  ## - method DISPATCHERS (`sfDispatcher`): their bodies are (re)synthesized into
+  ##   the main TU by `emitMethodDispatchers`/`generateIfMethodDispatchers`, never
+  ##   per module. A dispatcher is a `copySym` clone of the method that shares the
+  ##   method's body sub-tree (incl. its closure iterator); transforming it here
+  ##   would lambda-lift that SHARED iterator a SECOND time under a different owner
+  ##   identity, baking a conflicting `up` field → "up references do not agree"
+  ##   (the divergence is impossible in non-IC, where the dispatcher body is empty
+  ##   at lift time). So a dispatcher is never an owned runtime routine.
   ## A `{.closure.}` iterator IS a standalone runtime routine (unlike an inline
   ## iterator, which is expanded at each call site) and must be emitted by its
   ## owner — else a cross-module `for` over it links to nothing.
@@ -166,6 +174,7 @@ proc ownsRuntimeRoutine(s: PSym; modPos: int): bool =
   s.skipGenericOwner != nil and s.skipGenericOwner.kind == skModule and
   s.magic == mNone and
   sfFromGeneric notin s.flags and
+  sfDispatcher notin s.flags and
   {sfForward, sfImportc, sfCompileTime, sfError} * s.flags == {} and
   s.typ != nil and not signatureHasMetaType(s.typ) and
   s.ast != nil and s.ast.safeLen > bodyPos and
diff --git a/koch.nim b/koch.nim
index 58850e03dd..f1eac10910 100644
--- a/koch.nim
+++ b/koch.nim
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ proc runIcTestFile(inp: string) =
 const icSuite = ["thallo", "tconverter", "timp", "tmiscs", "tparseutils",
                  "tcompiletimeglobal", "tsighashstable", "tpureenum", "tgenericoffer",
                  "tconverterreexport", "ttypeoffer", "ttransitiveoffer",
-                 "tmodsymref"]
+                 "tmodsymref", "tmethupref"]
 
 proc icTest(args: string) =
   temp("")
diff --git a/tests/ic/tmethupref.nim b/tests/ic/tmethupref.nim
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..333138c7f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/ic/tmethupref.nim
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+discard """
+output: '''42'''
+"""
+
+# Regression test: a `{.base.}` method whose body holds a closure iterator with a
+# nested capturing closure must not crash the IC backend. The method's dispatcher
+# (a `copySym` clone sharing the iterator) must NOT be lambda-lifted per module;
+# otherwise the shared iterator's `up` field is baked twice under divergent owner
+# identities -> "up references do not agree" / "could not determine closure type"
+# (the real-world symptom: ~all libp2p async `{.base.}` methods failed under
+# `nim ic`). Fixed by excluding `sfDispatcher` from nifbackend.ownsRuntimeRoutine.
+
+import mmethupref
+let b = Base(val: 40)
+echo b.compute()