He was the youngest of the three sons of the first Sultan of Pahang, Muhammad Shah by his wife Mengindra Putri, a princess from Kelantan.
Ignorant of this development, Albuquerque sent three ships to the port of Pahang for provisions, where two of their captains and thirty men were killed.
At this crisis, Martim Afonso de Sousa arrived with support, relieved the city, and pursued the Laksamana into Muar.
Then he proceeded to Pahang, destroyed all the vessels in the river and killed over six hundred people in retaliation for the assistance given by their ruler to the Sultan Mahmud of Bintan.
Mascarenhas despatched a vessel with Francisco Vasconcellos and others to attack Pahang's forces which quickly fled.
He was succeeded by a son Alauddin Shah II who was fifteen years old, and who later established the Johor Sultanate.