[1][2] Her father was Sultan Mustafa III, and her mother the consort Rifat Kadın, a freeborn woman.
On 24 April 1764, when Şah was three years old, her father betrothed her to the Grand Vizier Köse Bahir Mustafa Pasha.
On 6 November 1778, during the reign of her uncle Sultan Abdul Hamid I, when Şah was seventeen years old, she married vizier Nişançı Seyyid Mustafa Pasha.
Selim III often visited them, staying for days and summoning the Grand Vizier there to discuss affairs of state.
[11] Şah Sultan died on 11 March 1803 in the Çağaloğlu Palace,[12] and was buried in her own mausoleum located in Eyüp.