diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index fc89ff7a..2e7b0fb6 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -239,9 +239,15 @@ export interface MeshPeer {
   direction: Direction
 }
 
+export interface GossipIHave {
+  peerId: string
+  message: RPC.ControlIHave[]
+}
+
 export interface GossipsubEvents extends PubSubEvents {
   'gossipsub:heartbeat': CustomEvent
   'gossipsub:message': CustomEvent<GossipsubMessage>
+  'gossipsub:ihave': CustomEvent<GossipIHave>
   'gossipsub:graft': CustomEvent<MeshPeer>
   'gossipsub:prune': CustomEvent<MeshPeer>
 }
@@ -1483,6 +1489,10 @@ export class GossipSub extends TypedEventEmitter<GossipsubEvents> implements Pub
       return []
     }
 
+    this.safeDispatchEvent<GossipIHave>('gossipsub:ihave', {
+      detail: { peerId: id, message: ihave }
+    })
+
     const iasked = this.iasked.get(id) ?? 0
     if (iasked >= constants.GossipsubMaxIHaveLength) {
       this.log('IHAVE: peer %s has already advertised too many messages (%d); ignoring', id, iasked)
diff --git a/test/gossip.spec.ts b/test/gossip.spec.ts
index e656f4d1..f3669c6b 100644
--- a/test/gossip.spec.ts
+++ b/test/gossip.spec.ts
@@ -86,6 +86,29 @@ describe('gossip', () => {
     nodeASpy.pushGossip.restore()
   })
 
+  it('should dispatch ihave event when gossiping', async function () {
+    this.timeout(10e4)
+    const nodeA = nodes[0]
+    const topic = 'Z'
+
+    const subscriptionPromises = nodes.map(async (n) => pEvent(n.pubsub, 'subscription-change'))
+    nodes.forEach((n) => { n.pubsub.subscribe(topic) })
+
+    await connectAllPubSubNodes(nodes)
+    await Promise.all(subscriptionPromises)
+    await Promise.all(nodes.map(async (n) => pEvent(n.pubsub, 'gossipsub:heartbeat')))
+
+    // Check that nodeA has received IHAVE event
+    const ihavePromise = pEvent(nodeA.pubsub, 'gossipsub:ihave')
+
+    await nodeA.pubsub.publish(topic, uint8ArrayFromString('test_ihave'))
+
+    await pEvent(nodeA.pubsub, 'gossipsub:heartbeat')
+
+    const ihaveEvent = await ihavePromise
+    expect(ihaveEvent.detail.message[0].topicID).to.equal(topic)
+  })
+
   it('should send idontwant to peers in topic', async function () {
     // This test checks that idontwants and idontwantsCounts are correctly incrmemented
     // - idontwantCounts should track the number of idontwant messages received from a peer for a single heartbeat