diff --git a/docs/topics/jobs.rst b/docs/topics/jobs.rst
index e49f37a2f..f16d306c7 100644
--- a/docs/topics/jobs.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/jobs.rst
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ a signal), and resume it later by issuing the same command::
 
     scrapy crawl somespider -s JOBDIR=crawls/somespider-1
 
+.. _topics-keeping-persistent-state-between-batches:
+
 Keeping persistent state between batches
 ========================================
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/spiders.rst b/docs/topics/spiders.rst
index 67b9e2e0e..4d3d32941 100644
--- a/docs/topics/spiders.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/spiders.rst
@@ -122,6 +122,11 @@ scrapy.Spider
       send log messages through it as described on
       :ref:`topics-logging-from-spiders`.
 
+   .. attribute:: state
+
+      A dict you can use to persist some spider state between batches.
+      See :ref:`topics-keeping-persistent-state-between-batches` to know more about it.
+
    .. method:: from_crawler(crawler, *args, **kwargs)
 
        This is the class method used by Scrapy to create your spiders.