diff --git a/spec/AuthenticationAdaptersV2.spec.js b/spec/AuthenticationAdaptersV2.spec.js
index cafb309f0b..a74c467921 100644
--- a/spec/AuthenticationAdaptersV2.spec.js
+++ b/spec/AuthenticationAdaptersV2.spec.js
@@ -1702,4 +1702,36 @@ describe('Auth Adapter features', () => {
       expect(res.status).toBeLessThan(500);
     });
   });
+
+  it('reads a user with legacy authData for a now-misconfigured provider (#9885)', async () => {
+    let optionsShouldThrow = false;
+    const legacyProvider = {
+      validateAppId: () => Promise.resolve(),
+      validateSetUp: () => Promise.resolve(),
+      validateUpdate: () => Promise.resolve(),
+      validateLogin: () => Promise.resolve(),
+      validateOptions: () => {
+        // Mirrors e.g. the Twitter adapter throwing when its keys are not (or no
+        // longer) configured on the server.
+        if (optionsShouldThrow) {
+          throw new Error('Consumer key and secret are required.');
+        }
+      },
+      afterFind: () => ({ id: 'user1' }),
+    };
+
+    await reconfigureServer({ auth: { legacyProvider } });
+
+    const user = new Parse.User();
+    await user.save({ authData: { legacyProvider: { id: 'user1' } } });
+    expect(user.id).toBeDefined();
+
+    // The provider becomes unconfigured/misconfigured after the user already
+    // carries its authData; reading that user must not fail.
+    optionsShouldThrow = true;
+
+    const query = new Parse.Query(Parse.User);
+    const fetched = await query.get(user.id, { useMasterKey: true });
+    expect(fetched.id).toEqual(user.id);
+  });
 });
diff --git a/src/Adapters/Auth/index.js b/src/Adapters/Auth/index.js
index 51dd5342ef..f7f9e02b75 100755
--- a/src/Adapters/Auth/index.js
+++ b/src/Adapters/Auth/index.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import loadAdapter from '../AdapterLoader';
 import Parse from 'parse/node';
 import AuthAdapter from './AuthAdapter';
+import logger from '../../logger';
 
 const apple = require('./apple');
 const digits = require('./twitter'); // digits tokens are validated by twitter
@@ -228,7 +229,16 @@ module.exports = function (authOptions = {}, enableAnonymousUsers = true) {
     const adapters = Object.keys(authData);
     await Promise.all(
       adapters.map(async provider => {
-        const authAdapter = getValidatorForProvider(provider);
+        let authAdapter;
+        try {
+          authAdapter = getValidatorForProvider(provider);
+        } catch (e) {
+          // A provider that is no longer configured (or misconfigured) throws in
+          // validateOptions; that must not break reads of users still carrying its
+          // legacy authData (#9885). Skip it, as getProviders does for the same call.
+          logger.verbose(`Skipping afterFind for unconfigured auth provider "${provider}": ${e}`);
+          return;
+        }
         if (!authAdapter) {
           return;
         }