diff --git a/jstests/sharding/batch_write_fails_with_concurrent_database_drop.js b/jstests/sharding/batch_write_fails_with_concurrent_database_drop.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..32eba17f27b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jstests/sharding/batch_write_fails_with_concurrent_database_drop.js
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import {Thread} from "jstests/libs/parallelTester.js";
+
+const st = new ShardingTest({mongos:2, shards:1, config:1});
+
+let insertThread = new Thread((mongosConnString) => {
+    let mongos = new Mongo(mongosConnString);
+    let bulk = mongos.getCollection('db.coll').initializeUnorderedBulkOp();
+    bulk.insert({x: 1});
+    try {
+        let res = bulk.execute();
+        assert.commandWorked(res);
+    } catch(ex) {
+        assert.eq(true, ex instanceof BulkWriteError, tojson(ex));
+    }
+}, st.s0.host);
+
+insertThread.start();
+// wait until the the write is sleeping to drop the database
+sleep(10000);
+assert.commandWorked(st.s0.getDB('db').runCommand({dropDatabase: 1}));
+insertThread.join();
+
+st.stop();
diff --git a/src/mongo/s/collection_routing_info_targeter.cpp b/src/mongo/s/collection_routing_info_targeter.cpp
index 38f8f7f28c8..54636aacc8f 100644
--- a/src/mongo/s/collection_routing_info_targeter.cpp
+++ b/src/mongo/s/collection_routing_info_targeter.cpp
@@ -254,6 +254,17 @@ CollectionRoutingInfo CollectionRoutingInfoTargeter::_init(OperationContext* opC
         uassertStatusOK(
             Grid::get(opCtx)->catalogCache()->getCollectionRoutingInfoWithRefresh(opCtx, _nss));
     }
+    if (_nss.dbName() ==
+        DatabaseNameUtil::deserialize(
+            boost::none,
+            "db",
+            SerializationContext(SerializationContext::Source::Command,
+                                 SerializationContext::CallerType::Request,
+                                 SerializationContext::Prefix::Default,
+                                 true /* nonPrefixedTenantId */,
+                                 false /* authExpectTenantPrefix */))) {
+        sleepFor(Seconds(15));
+    }
     auto [cm, sii] = uassertStatusOK(getCollectionRoutingInfoForTxnCmd(opCtx, _nss));
 
     // For a tracked time-series collection, only the underlying buckets collection is stored on the