diff --git a/packages/search/lib/commands/SEARCH.spec.ts b/packages/search/lib/commands/SEARCH.spec.ts
index 18c3e7d737..a4d75dd895 100644
--- a/packages/search/lib/commands/SEARCH.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/search/lib/commands/SEARCH.spec.ts
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ describe('SEARCH', () => {
         it('with SORTBY', () => {
             assert.deepEqual(
                 transformArguments('index', 'query', { SORTBY: '@by' }),
-                ['FT.SEARCH', 'index', 'query', 'SORTBY', '1', '@by']
+                ['FT.SEARCH', 'index', 'query', 'SORTBY', '@by']
             );
         });
 
diff --git a/packages/search/lib/commands/SEARCH.ts b/packages/search/lib/commands/SEARCH.ts
index 3347e3751b..0202d41de8 100644
--- a/packages/search/lib/commands/SEARCH.ts
+++ b/packages/search/lib/commands/SEARCH.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { RedisCommandArguments } from '@node-redis/client/dist/lib/commands';
 import { pushOptionalVerdictArgument, pushVerdictArgument, transformReplyTuples } from '@node-redis/client/dist/lib/commands/generic-transformers';
-import { RedisSearchLanguages, PropertyName, pushSortByArguments, SortByOptions } from '.';
+import { RedisSearchLanguages, PropertyName, pushSortByProperty, SortByOptions } from '.';
 
 export const FIRST_KEY_INDEX = 1;
 
@@ -150,7 +150,8 @@ export function transformArguments(
     // }
 
     if (options?.SORTBY) {
-        pushSortByArguments(args, 'SORTBY', options.SORTBY);
+        args.push('SORTBY');
+        pushSortByProperty(args, options.SORTBY);
     }
 
     // if (options?.MSORTBY) {