diff --git a/crates/core/src/delta_datafusion/mod.rs b/crates/core/src/delta_datafusion/mod.rs
index 8d64f85fb2..50983d8400 100644
--- a/crates/core/src/delta_datafusion/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/core/src/delta_datafusion/mod.rs
@@ -644,7 +644,15 @@ impl<'a> DeltaScanBuilder<'a> {
         let mut exec_plan_builder = ParquetExecBuilder::new(FileScanConfig {
             object_store_url: self.log_store.object_store_url(),
             file_schema,
-            file_groups: file_groups.into_values().collect(),
+            // If all files were filtered out, we still need to emit at least one partition to
+            // pass datafusion sanity checks.
+            //
+            // See https://github.com/apache/datafusion/issues/11322
+            file_groups: if file_groups.is_empty() {
+                vec![vec![]]
+            } else {
+                file_groups.into_values().collect()
+            },
             statistics: stats,
             projection: self.projection.cloned(),
             limit: self.limit,
@@ -1764,8 +1772,11 @@ impl From<Column> for DeltaColumn {
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
-    use arrow_array::StructArray;
-    use arrow_schema::Schema;
+    use crate::operations::create::CreateBuilder;
+    use crate::operations::write::SchemaMode;
+    use crate::writer::test_utils::get_delta_schema;
+    use arrow::array::StructArray;
+    use arrow::datatypes::{Field, Schema};
     use chrono::{TimeZone, Utc};
     use datafusion::assert_batches_sorted_eq;
     use datafusion::datasource::physical_plan::ParquetExec;
@@ -1774,13 +1785,12 @@ mod tests {
     use datafusion_expr::lit;
     use datafusion_proto::physical_plan::AsExecutionPlan;
     use datafusion_proto::protobuf;
+    use delta_kernel::schema::StructField;
     use object_store::path::Path;
     use serde_json::json;
     use std::ops::Deref;
 
     use super::*;
-    use crate::operations::write::SchemaMode;
-    use crate::writer::test_utils::get_delta_schema;
 
     // test deserialization of serialized partition values.
     // https://github.com/delta-io/delta/blob/master/PROTOCOL.md#partition-value-serialization
@@ -2566,4 +2576,26 @@ mod tests {
             Ok(true)
         }
     }
+
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn passes_sanity_checker_when_all_files_filtered() {
+        // Run a query that filters out all files and sorts.
+        // Verify that it returns an empty set of rows without panicing.
+        //
+        // Historically, we had a bug that caused us to emit a query plan with 0 partitions, which
+        // datafusion rejected.
+        let table = crate::open_table("../test/tests/data/delta-2.2.0-partitioned-types")
+            .await
+            .unwrap();
+        let ctx = SessionContext::new();
+        ctx.register_table("test", Arc::new(table)).unwrap();
+
+        let df = ctx
+            .sql("select * from test where c3 = 100 ORDER BY c1 ASC")
+            .await
+            .unwrap();
+        let actual = df.collect().await.unwrap();
+
+        assert_eq!(actual.len(), 0);
+    }
 }