diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/MatchQueryBuilder.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/MatchQueryBuilder.java
index 3f92839102ad9..2f03a89c51e82 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/MatchQueryBuilder.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/MatchQueryBuilder.java
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.core.KeywordAnalyzer;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.FuzzyQuery;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.SetOnce;
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersion;
 import org.elasticsearch.TransportVersions;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.ResolvedIndices;
@@ -24,16 +25,21 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.common.unit.Fuzziness;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.LoggingDeprecationHandler;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.analysis.NamedAnalyzer;
+import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.IndexFieldMapper;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MappedFieldType;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.query.support.QueryParsers;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.search.MatchQueryParser;
+import org.elasticsearch.logging.LogManager;
 import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.ParseField;
 import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.XContentBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.xcontent.XContentParser;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Objects;
+import java.util.function.Supplier;
 
 /**
  * Match query is a query that analyzes the text and constructs a query as the
@@ -376,10 +382,11 @@ protected QueryBuilder doRewrite(QueryRewriteContext queryRewriteContext) throws
             ResolvedIndices resolvedIndices = queryRewriteContext.getResolvedIndices();
             if (resolvedIndices != null) {
                 Collection<IndexMetadata> indexMetadataCollection = resolvedIndices.getConcreteLocalIndicesMetadata().values();
-
-                boolean foundNonInferenceField = false;
+                List<String> inferenceIndices = new ArrayList<>();
+                List<String> nonInferenceIndices = new ArrayList<>();
                 String inferenceFieldQueryName = null;
                 for (IndexMetadata indexMetadata : indexMetadataCollection) {
+                    String indexName = indexMetadata.getIndex().getName();
                     InferenceFieldMetadata inferenceFieldMetadata = indexMetadata.getInferenceFields().get(fieldName);
                     if (inferenceFieldMetadata != null) {
                         if (inferenceFieldQueryName != null
@@ -388,25 +395,56 @@ protected QueryBuilder doRewrite(QueryRewriteContext queryRewriteContext) throws
                         }
 
                         inferenceFieldQueryName = inferenceFieldMetadata.getQueryName();
+                        inferenceIndices.add(indexName);
                     } else {
-                        foundNonInferenceField = true;
+                        nonInferenceIndices.add(indexName);
                     }
                 }
 
-                if (foundNonInferenceField && inferenceFieldQueryName != null) {
-                    throw new IllegalArgumentException("Cannot query inference fields and non-inference fields at the same time");
-                }
-
-                if (inferenceFieldQueryName != null) {
+                if (inferenceIndices.isEmpty() == false && nonInferenceIndices.isEmpty() == false) {
+                    BoolQueryBuilder boolQueryBuilder = new BoolQueryBuilder();
+                    boolQueryBuilder.should(
+                        createInferenceSubQuery(
+                            queryRewriteContext.getQueryBuilderService(),
+                            inferenceFieldQueryName,
+                            inferenceIndices,
+                            fieldName,
+                            value
+                        )
+                    );
+                    boolQueryBuilder.should(createNonInferenceSubQuery(nonInferenceIndices, rewritten));
+                    rewritten = boolQueryBuilder;
+                } else if (inferenceFieldQueryName != null) {
                     rewritten = queryRewriteContext.getQueryBuilderService()
                         .getQueryBuilder(inferenceFieldQueryName, fieldName, value.toString());
                 }
             }
         }
 
+        // LogManager.getLogger(MatchQueryBuilder.class).info("rewritten: " + rewritten);
         return rewritten;
     }
 
+    private QueryBuilder createInferenceSubQuery(
+        QueryBuilderService queryBuilderService,
+        String inferenceFieldQueryName,
+        List<String> indices,
+        String fieldName,
+        Object value
+    ) {
+        BoolQueryBuilder boolQueryBuilder = new BoolQueryBuilder();
+        boolQueryBuilder.must(queryBuilderService.getQueryBuilder(inferenceFieldQueryName, fieldName, value.toString()));
+        boolQueryBuilder.filter(new TermsQueryBuilder(IndexFieldMapper.NAME, indices));
+        return boolQueryBuilder;
+    }
+
+    private QueryBuilder createNonInferenceSubQuery(List<String> indices, QueryBuilder rewritten) {
+        BoolQueryBuilder boolQueryBuilder = new BoolQueryBuilder();
+        boolQueryBuilder.must(rewritten);
+        boolQueryBuilder.filter(new TermsQueryBuilder(IndexFieldMapper.NAME, indices));
+        return boolQueryBuilder;
+    }
+
     @Override
     protected QueryBuilder doIndexMetadataRewrite(QueryRewriteContext context) throws IOException {
         if (fuzziness != null || lenient) {