diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/59745-fix-pipelining-in-buildah-connection-plugin.yml b/changelogs/fragments/59745-fix-pipelining-in-buildah-connection-plugin.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..edef4f318e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/59745-fix-pipelining-in-buildah-connection-plugin.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- Pipelining now works with the buildah plugin.
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/buildah.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/buildah.py
index 470173be18f..bb04b224855 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/buildah.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/connection/buildah.py
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):
         # shlex.split has a bug with text strings on Python-2.6 and can only handle text strings on Python-3
         cmd_args_list = shlex.split(to_native(cmd, errors='surrogate_or_strict'))
 
-        rc, stdout, stderr = self._buildah("run", cmd_args_list)
+        rc, stdout, stderr = self._buildah("run", cmd_args_list, in_data)
 
         display.vvvvv("STDOUT %r STDERR %r" % (stderr, stderr))
         return rc, stdout, stderr