diff --git a/src/uu/split/src/split.rs b/src/uu/split/src/split.rs
index d683bb34328..d150299143b 100644
--- a/src/uu/split/src/split.rs
+++ b/src/uu/split/src/split.rs
@@ -140,6 +140,9 @@ fn filter_args(
     filter
 }
 
+/// Short options that take a value, as in '-b 10' or '-b10'
+const SHORT_OPTS_WITH_VALUE: &[u8] = b"abClnt"; // spell-checker:disable-line
+
 /// Helper function to [`filter_args`]
 /// Checks if the slice is a true short option (and not hyphen prefixed value of an option)
 /// and if so, a short option that can contain obsolete lines value
@@ -151,7 +154,9 @@ fn should_extract_obs_lines(
     !preceding_long_opt_req_value
         && !preceding_short_opt_req_value
         && slice.strip_prefix("-").is_some_and(|s| {
-            !s.as_bytes().first().is_some_and(|s| b"-abClnt".contains(s)) // spell-checker:disable-line
+            !s.as_bytes()
+                .first()
+                .is_some_and(|s| *s == b'-' || SHORT_OPTS_WITH_VALUE.contains(s))
         })
 }
 
@@ -161,9 +166,18 @@ fn should_extract_obs_lines(
 fn handle_extract_obs_lines(slice: &str, obs_lines: &mut Option<String>) -> Option<OsString> {
     let mut obs_lines_extracted: Vec<char> = vec![];
     let mut obs_lines_end_reached = false;
+    let mut option_value_reached = false;
     let filtered_slice: Vec<char> = slice
         .chars()
         .filter(|c| {
+            // The rest of the argument after an option that takes a value,
+            // as in '-dn10', is that value and not an obsolete lines value
+            if option_value_reached {
+                return true;
+            }
+            if u8::try_from(*c).is_ok_and(|c| SHORT_OPTS_WITH_VALUE.contains(&c)) {
+                option_value_reached = true;
+            }
             // To correctly process scenario like '-x200a4'
             // we need to stop extracting digits once alphabetic character is encountered
             // after we already have something in obs_lines_extracted
@@ -225,10 +239,21 @@ fn handle_preceding_options(
                 | options::SEPARATOR
         );
     }
-    // capture if current slice is a preceding short option that requires value and does not have value in the same slice (value separated by whitespace)
+    // capture if current slice is a short option, alone or ending a group like '-dl', that requires value and does not have value in the same slice (value separated by whitespace)
     // following slice should be treaded as value for this option
     // even if it starts with '-' (which would be treated as hyphen prefixed value)
-    *preceding_short_opt_req_value = matches!(slice, "-b" | "-C" | "-l" | "-n" | "-a" | "-t");
+    // the first short option in the group that requires value takes the rest of the group as its value,
+    // so only a group where that option is the last character leaves the following slice to it
+    *preceding_short_opt_req_value = slice
+        .strip_prefix('-')
+        .filter(|shorts| !shorts.starts_with('-'))
+        .and_then(|shorts| {
+            shorts
+                .bytes()
+                .position(|c| SHORT_OPTS_WITH_VALUE.contains(&c))
+                .map(|i| i == shorts.len() - 1)
+        })
+        .unwrap_or(false);
 }
 
 /// Parameters that control how a file gets split.
diff --git a/tests/by-util/test_split.rs b/tests/by-util/test_split.rs
index fb39a91b045..148fc435e78 100644
--- a/tests/by-util/test_split.rs
+++ b/tests/by-util/test_split.rs
@@ -525,6 +525,28 @@ fn test_split_obs_lines_within_combined_shorts() {
     assert_eq!(glob.collate(), at.read_bytes(name));
 }
 
+/// Digits that are the value of an option in the same combined short options,
+/// as in `-dn10`, are not an obsolete lines option
+#[test]
+fn test_split_option_value_within_combined_shorts() {
+    let (at, mut ucmd) = at_and_ucmd!();
+    let name = "option-value-within-shorts";
+    RandomFile::new(&at, name).add_lines(100);
+
+    ucmd.args(&["-dn10", name]).succeeds().no_output();
+    let glob = Glob::new(&at, ".", r"x\d\d$");
+    assert_eq!(glob.count(), 10);
+    assert_eq!(glob.collate(), at.read_bytes(name));
+
+    let (at, mut ucmd) = at_and_ucmd!();
+    RandomFile::new(&at, name).add_lines(100);
+
+    ucmd.args(&["-xl25", name]).succeeds().no_output();
+    let glob = Glob::new(&at, ".", r"x[[:xdigit:]]{2}$");
+    assert_eq!(glob.count(), 4);
+    assert_eq!(glob.collate(), at.read_bytes(name));
+}
+
 /// Test for obsolete lines option as part of combined short options with tailing suffix length with value
 #[test]
 fn test_split_obs_lines_within_combined_shorts_tailing_suffix_length() {
@@ -637,6 +659,32 @@ fn test_split_obs_lines_as_other_option_value() {
         .stderr_contains("split: invalid number of chunks: '-e200'\n");
 }
 
+/// A short option that requires value at the end of combined short options, as in `-dl`,
+/// takes the following hyphen prefixed argument as its value
+#[test]
+fn test_split_obs_lines_as_value_of_option_ending_combined_shorts() {
+    let scene = TestScenario::new(util_name!());
+    let at = &scene.fixtures;
+    at.touch("file");
+
+    scene
+        .ucmd()
+        .args(&["-dl", "-200", "file"])
+        .fails_with_code(1)
+        .stderr_only("split: invalid number of lines: '-200'\n");
+    scene
+        .ucmd()
+        .args(&["-xa", "-200", "file"])
+        .fails_with_code(1)
+        .stderr_only("split: invalid suffix length: '-200'\n");
+    // `-a` takes `2l` as its value here, so `-5` is not the value of `-l`
+    scene
+        .ucmd()
+        .args(&["-a2l", "-5", "file"])
+        .fails_with_code(1)
+        .stderr_only("split: invalid suffix length: '2l'\n");
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn test_split_chunks_by_line_or_round_robin_zero_chunks() {
     let scene = TestScenario::new(util_name!());