diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/common-hadrian.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/common-hadrian.nix
index 0fe3796c00b7..675b4298ed90 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/common-hadrian.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/common-hadrian.nix
@@ -311,6 +311,9 @@
         ./ghc-define-undefined-elf-st-visibility.patch
       ]
 
+      # Fix docs build with Sphinx >= 9 https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/26810
+      ++ [ ./ghc-9.6-or-later-docs-sphinx-9.patch ]
+
       ++ (import ./common-llvm-patches.nix { inherit lib version fetchpatch; });
 
     stdenv = stdenvNoCC;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/common-make-native-bignum.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/common-make-native-bignum.nix
index 2300e0470ca7..6a900696cc3e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/common-make-native-bignum.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/common-make-native-bignum.nix
@@ -305,6 +305,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (
       # Fix docs build with Sphinx >= 7 https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/24129 krank:ignore-line
       ./docs-sphinx-7.patch
 
+      # Fix docs build with Sphinx >= 9 https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/26810
+      ./ghc-9.4-docs-sphinx-9.patch
+
       # Correctly record libnuma's library and include directories in the
       # package db. This fixes linking whenever stdenv and propagation won't
       # quite pass the correct -L flags to the linker, e.g. when using GHC
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/ghc-9.4-docs-sphinx-9.patch b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/ghc-9.4-docs-sphinx-9.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..74053b94e9a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/ghc-9.4-docs-sphinx-9.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From db33b15c27e607cd66b85d0a2a6868c7b718a96b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
+Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:09:54 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] users_guide: fix runtime error during build with Sphinx 9.1.0
+
+Appears that pathto is stricter about what it accepts now.
+Tested Sphinx 8.2.3 and 9.1.0 on the ghc-9.10 branch.
+
+Resolves #26810.
+
+Co-authored-by: Martin Weinelt <hexa@darmstadt.ccc.de>
+---
+ docs/users_guide/rtd-theme/layout.html | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/docs/users_guide/rtd-theme/layout.html b/docs/users_guide/rtd-theme/layout.html
+index 2a61142514..4b3c1befba 100644
+--- a/docs/users_guide/rtd-theme/layout.html
++++ b/docs/users_guide/rtd-theme/layout.html
+@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
+     {%- if css|attr("rel") %}
+   <link rel="{{ css.rel }}" href="{{ pathto(css.filename, 1) }}" type="text/css"{% if css.title is not none %} title="{{ css.title }}"{% endif %} />
+     {%- else %}
+-  <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ pathto(css, 1) }}" type="text/css" />
++  <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ pathto(css.filename, 1) }}" type="text/css" />
+     {%- endif %}
+   {%- endfor %}
+ 
+-- 
+2.52.0
+
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/ghc-9.6-or-later-docs-sphinx-9.patch b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/ghc-9.6-or-later-docs-sphinx-9.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5e6960f7e96c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/ghc/ghc-9.6-or-later-docs-sphinx-9.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+From 9653a2b9a9e3a756b287b0a59204860511e4abce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: sterni <sternenseemann@systemli.org>
+Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:09:54 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] users_guide: fix runtime error during build with Sphinx 9.1.0
+
+Appears that pathto is stricter about what it accepts now.
+Tested Sphinx 8.2.3 and 9.1.0 on the ghc-9.10 branch.
+
+Resolves #26810.
+
+Co-authored-by: Martin Weinelt <hexa@darmstadt.ccc.de>
+---
+ docs/users_guide/rtd-theme/layout.html | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/docs/users_guide/rtd-theme/layout.html b/docs/users_guide/rtd-theme/layout.html
+index 94a40cc1c3..f2441378a8 100644
+--- a/docs/users_guide/rtd-theme/layout.html
++++ b/docs/users_guide/rtd-theme/layout.html
+@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
+     {%- if css|attr("rel") %}
+       <link rel="{{ css.rel }}" href="{{ pathto(css.filename, 1) }}" type="text/css"{% if css.title is not none %} title="{{ css.title }}"{% endif %} />
+     {%- else %}
+-      <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ pathto(css, 1) }}" type="text/css" />
++      <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{ pathto(css.filename, 1) }}" type="text/css" />
+     {%- endif %}
+   {%- endfor %}
+ 
+-- 
+2.52.0