diff --git a/src/Reflection/FunctionBodySwap.php b/src/Reflection/FunctionBodySwap.php
index c3b8e45..51f7e9e 100644
--- a/src/Reflection/FunctionBodySwap.php
+++ b/src/Reflection/FunctionBodySwap.php
@@ -860,7 +860,8 @@ private static function isDefaultsTableShared(
      * walk over the object store
      *
      * Only user-function closures are of interest (an internal function's closure carries
-     * no op_array), so the list is narrowed to those. The views point into the closure
+     * no op_array, and no user-function view can be built over it), so the list is narrowed
+     * to those before any view is made. The views point into the closure
      * objects: the list describes the live closures only until user code runs again (a
      * destructor fired by a table release may create or drop closures), so the callers take
      * every decision that reads it BEFORE they destroy anything.
@@ -876,11 +877,14 @@ private static function liveClosureFunctions(): array
         }
         $liveClosures = [];
         foreach (Core::$executor->objectStore->instancesOf(self::$closureClassAddress) as $closureObject) {
-            $closure         = Core::cast(zend_closure::class, $closureObject->getRawValue());
-            $closureFunction = ReflectionFunction::fromCData(Core::addr($closure->func));
-            if ($closureFunction->isUserDefined()) {
-                $liveClosures[] = $closureFunction;
+            $closure = Core::cast(zend_closure::class, $closureObject->getRawValue());
+            // The type is read off the union before any view is built over it: a closure
+            // over an internal function (strlen(...), Closure::fromCallable('strlen')) keeps
+            // its name in the internal_function member, where a zend_function view has none
+            if (($closure->func->type & Core::ZEND_USER_FUNCTION) === 0) {
+                continue;
             }
+            $liveClosures[] = ReflectionFunction::fromCData(Core::addr($closure->func));
         }
 
         return $liveClosures;
diff --git a/tests/Reflection/RedefineLiveInternalClosureTest.php b/tests/Reflection/RedefineLiveInternalClosureTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0457a78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Reflection/RedefineLiveInternalClosureTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * Z-Engine framework
+ *
+ * @copyright Copyright 2026, Lisachenko Alexander <lisachenko.it@gmail.com>
+ *
+ * This source file is subject to the license that is bundled
+ * with this source code in the file LICENSE.
+ *
+ */
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+namespace ZEngine\Reflection;
+
+use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
+use ZEngine\Stub\Alias\InternalClosureCounter;
+
+/**
+ * A swap walks the live closures to find the copies of the entry (fake closures over it
+ * share its run-time cache and borrow its live statics). Closures over INTERNAL functions
+ * are live objects too - a first-class callable of strlen(), Closure::fromCallable() over
+ * an internal function, the closure of an internal method - and carry no user op_array: the
+ * walk must skip them before building a user-function view, which has no name field to
+ * read on an internal entry (it threw "Attempt to read undefined field 'function_name'"
+ * and failed every redefine() while such a closure was alive; PHP 8.6 keeps such closures
+ * in its callable caches, so there it failed always).
+ */
+final class RedefineLiveInternalClosureTest extends TestCase
+{
+    public function testSwapsRemovalsAndStaticsReleaseIgnoreClosuresOverInternalFunctions(): void
+    {
+        $firstClass = strlen(...);
+        $callable   = \Closure::fromCallable('strtoupper');
+        $method     = (new \ReflectionMethod(\ArrayObject::class, 'count'))->getClosure(new \ArrayObject([1, 2]));
+
+        $entry = (new ReflectionClass(InternalClosureCounter::class))->getMethod('counter');
+        $entry->redefine(function (): int {
+            /** @var int $n */
+            static $n = 10;
+
+            return ++$n;
+        });
+        // Instantiated after the first swap: under the opcache-active runner the class is
+        // copied out of shared memory by it, and instances made before keep the shared class
+        $instance = new InternalClosureCounter();
+        self::assertSame(11, $instance->counter(), 'the live statics table of the swapped body materializes');
+
+        // Every release path that walks the live closures: the minted cache of the previous
+        // body (second swap), the live statics the preserved alias takes over, and what
+        // removeMethods() retires
+        $entry->redefine(function (): int {
+            /** @var int $n */
+            static $n = 20;
+
+            return ++$n;
+        }, preserveAs: 'counterPrevious');
+        self::assertSame(21, $instance->counter());
+        self::assertSame(22, $instance->counter());
+        (new ReflectionClass(InternalClosureCounter::class))->removeMethods('counterPrevious');
+        self::assertSame(23, $instance->counter());
+
+        self::assertSame(3, $firstClass('abc'), 'the closures over internal functions are untouched');
+        self::assertSame('ABC', $callable('abc'));
+        self::assertSame(2, $method());
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/Stub/Alias/InternalClosureCounter.php b/tests/Stub/Alias/InternalClosureCounter.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..da48902
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/Stub/Alias/InternalClosureCounter.php
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * Z-Engine framework
+ *
+ * @copyright Copyright 2026, Lisachenko Alexander <lisachenko.it@gmail.com>
+ *
+ * This source file is subject to the license that is bundled
+ * with this source code in the file LICENSE.
+ *
+ */
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+namespace ZEngine\Stub\Alias;
+
+/**
+ * Method with a static variable redefined while closures over internal functions are alive
+ * (RedefineLiveInternalClosureTest)
+ */
+class InternalClosureCounter
+{
+    public function counter(): int
+    {
+        /** @var int $n */
+        static $n = 0;
+
+        return ++$n;
+    }
+}