diff --git a/src/transformers/distributed/mixin.py b/src/transformers/distributed/mixin.py
index eb1bafd7355f..c3d2ff5c3027 100644
--- a/src/transformers/distributed/mixin.py
+++ b/src/transformers/distributed/mixin.py
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@ def maybe_distribute_model(
                 if isinstance(distributed_config.tp_plan, dict):
                     model.tp_plan = distributed_config.tp_plan
                 model = apply_tensor_parallelism(model, tp_mesh)
+                model._tp_size = distributed_config.tp_size
 
             elif distributed_config.fsdp_size > 1:
                 fsdp_mesh = device_mesh["fsdp"] if device_mesh.ndim > 1 else device_mesh
diff --git a/src/transformers/integrations/peft.py b/src/transformers/integrations/peft.py
index 91ebf98791ce..219fe26c7c28 100644
--- a/src/transformers/integrations/peft.py
+++ b/src/transformers/integrations/peft.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 from dataclasses import replace
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Literal, Optional
 
-from safetensors import safe_open
+from transformers.utils.import_utils import is_peft_greater_or_equal
 
 from .._typing import PeftConfigLike
 from ..conversion_mapping import get_model_conversion_mapping
@@ -155,9 +155,8 @@ def load_adapter(
                 `find_adapter_config_file` method.
         """
         from peft import PeftType
-        from peft.utils.save_and_load import _maybe_shard_state_dict_for_tp
 
-        from ..modeling_utils import LoadStateDictConfig, _get_resolved_checkpoint_files, load_state_dict
+        from ..modeling_utils import LoadStateDictConfig, _get_resolved_checkpoint_files
 
         if local_files_only:
             kwargs["local_files_only"] = True
@@ -274,44 +273,22 @@ def is_adapter_key(key: str) -> bool:
 
         device_map = getattr(self, "hf_device_map", {"": self.device})
 
-        # If the model is tensor parallel, we handle the sharding of the state dict here since the logic in `self._load_pretrained_model`
-        # is not compatible with the way PEFT adapter should be sharded.
         has_tp_adapters = False
         for module in self.modules():
+            # Legacy, pre-DTensor TP integration: PEFT stamps a `_tp_info` marker on each TP-sharded LoRA module.
             tp_info = getattr(module, "_tp_info", None)
             if tp_info is not None:
                 has_tp_adapters = True
                 break
+        # DTensor TP integration: the base model itself carries the TP plan, so any adapter injected into it will be
+        # TP-sharded too; no per-module PEFT marker is needed to detect this.
+        has_tp_adapters = has_tp_adapters or bool(getattr(self, "_tp_plan", None))
 
-        if has_tp_adapters:
-            all_pointer = set()
-            if adapter_state_dict is not None:
-                merged_state_dict = adapter_state_dict
-            elif (
-                checkpoint_files is not None
-                and checkpoint_files[0].endswith(".safetensors")
-                and adapter_state_dict is None
-            ):
-                merged_state_dict = {}
-                for file in checkpoint_files:
-                    file_pointer = safe_open(file, framework="pt", device="cpu")
-                    all_pointer.add(file_pointer)
-                    for k in file_pointer.keys():
-                        merged_state_dict[k] = file_pointer.get_tensor(k)
-            # Checkpoints are .bin
-            elif checkpoint_files is not None:
-                merged_state_dict = {}
-                for ckpt_file in checkpoint_files:
-                    merged_state_dict.update(load_state_dict(ckpt_file))
-            else:
-                raise ValueError("Neither a state dict nor checkpoint files were found.")
-
-            adapter_state_dict = merged_state_dict
-
-            if any(not isinstance(v, torch.Tensor) for v in adapter_state_dict.values()):
-                raise ValueError("Expected all values in the adapter state dict to be tensors.")
-
-            _maybe_shard_state_dict_for_tp(self, adapter_state_dict, adapter_name)
+        if has_tp_adapters and not is_peft_greater_or_equal("0.20.1", accept_dev=True):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Loading a tensor-parallel PEFT adapter requires peft >= 0.20.1, please upgrade your peft "
+                "installation."
+            )
 
         load_config = replace(
             load_config,