Later when Timur invaded Syria, he moved to Samarkand and later to Transoxiana.

Arabshah later moved to Edirne and worked in the court of Sultan Mehmed I translating Arabic books to Turkish and Persian.

He later returned to Damascus after having been absent from the city for 23 years.

In his critical biography of Timur, Aja'ib al-Maqdur, written in Arabic, Arabshah highlighted Timur's illiteracy of Arabic and his preference for Persian literature.

The famous Muslim scholar, Abd al-Wahhab ibn Arabshah, was his son.