diff --git a/conversion/qwen.py b/conversion/qwen.py
index 419611896..c7e0809f3 100644
--- a/conversion/qwen.py
+++ b/conversion/qwen.py
@@ -379,6 +379,13 @@ class Qwen3NextModel(_QwenMtpMixin, Qwen2MoeModel):
         self.gguf_writer.add_ssm_group_count(self.hparams["linear_num_key_heads"])
         self.gguf_writer.add_ssm_time_step_rank(self.hparams["linear_num_value_heads"])
         self.gguf_writer.add_ssm_inner_size(self.hparams["linear_value_head_dim"] * self.hparams["linear_num_value_heads"])
+        if (layer_types := self.hparams.get("layer_types")) is not None:
+            n_layer = self.hparams["num_hidden_layers"]
+            if len(layer_types) != n_layer:
+                raise ValueError(f"layer_types has {len(layer_types)} entries, expected num_hidden_layers ({n_layer})")
+            recurrent = [t == "linear_attention" for t in layer_types]
+            recurrent += [False] * (self.block_count - n_layer)
+            self.gguf_writer.add_recurrent_layers(recurrent)
         self.gguf_writer.add_full_attention_interval(self.hparams.get("full_attention_interval", 4))
         if (rope_dim := self.hparams.get("head_dim")) is None:
             rope_dim = self.hparams["hidden_size"] // self.hparams["num_attention_heads"]
diff --git a/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py b/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
index d51e459dd..d3a639f37 100644
--- a/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
+++ b/gguf-py/gguf/constants.py
@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ class Keys:
         KV_LORA_RANK_SWA             = "{arch}.attention.kv_lora_rank_swa"
         SHARED_KV_LAYERS             = "{arch}.attention.shared_kv_layers"
         SLIDING_WINDOW_PATTERN       = "{arch}.attention.sliding_window_pattern"
+        RECURRENT_LAYERS             = "{arch}.attention.recurrent_layers"
         TEMPERATURE_SCALE            = "{arch}.attention.temperature_scale"
         ROPE_PATTERN                 = "{arch}.attention.rope_pattern"
 
diff --git a/gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py b/gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py
index 50e4d7c53..ed5a185b3 100644
--- a/gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py
+++ b/gguf-py/gguf/gguf_writer.py
@@ -841,6 +841,9 @@ class GGUFWriter:
         else:
             self.add_array(key, value)
 
+    def add_recurrent_layers(self, value: Sequence[bool]) -> None:
+        self.add_array(Keys.Attention.RECURRENT_LAYERS.format(arch=self.arch), value)
+
     def add_rope_pattern(self, value: Sequence[bool]) -> None:
         self.add_array(Keys.Attention.ROPE_PATTERN.format(arch=self.arch), value)