diff --git a/pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi b/pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi
index 344dd3a39..d63a9fcd9 100644
--- a/pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi
+++ b/pandas-stubs/core/frame.pyi
@@ -1025,7 +1025,7 @@ class DataFrame(NDFrame, OpsMixin, _GetItemHack):
         self,
         other: DataFrame,
         func: Callable,
-        fill_value=...,
+        fill_value: Scalar | None = ...,
         overwrite: _bool = ...,
     ) -> Self: ...
     def combine_first(self, other: DataFrame) -> Self: ...
diff --git a/tests/test_frame.py b/tests/test_frame.py
index e506528e3..c9d877c62 100644
--- a/tests/test_frame.py
+++ b/tests/test_frame.py
@@ -4000,3 +4000,15 @@ def test_hashable_args() -> None:
 # GH 906
 @pd.api.extensions.register_dataframe_accessor("geo")
 class GeoAccessor: ...
+
+
+def test_combine() -> None:
+    df1 = pd.DataFrame({"A": [0, 0], "B": [4, 4]})
+    df2 = pd.DataFrame({"A": [1, 1], "B": [3, 3]})
+    take_smaller = lambda s1, s2: s1 if s1.sum() < s2.sum() else s2
+    assert_type(
+        check(
+            df1.combine(df2, take_smaller, fill_value=0, overwrite=False), pd.DataFrame
+        ),
+        pd.DataFrame,
+    )