Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Kushandisa mukana wekushungurudzika muCaliphate mushure mekufa kwaHarun al-Rashid muna 809 uye panguva yehondo yevagari vemo yakatevera
, Ashot akakwanisa kuwedzera zvikuru nyika dzake nechiremera. Kumuka kwaAshot kwakadenhwa nerimwe mhuri ine vavariro, vaMuslim Jahhafids. Muvambi wemhuri iyi, Jahhaf, akanga ari mutsva muArmenia uyo akanga azviitira nzvimbo yakakura yesimba kuburikidza nekutora nyika dzeMamikonian kuburikidza nekuroorana kwake nemwanasikana waMushegh VI Mamikonian, mumwe wevatungamiriri veArmenia akaurayiwa kuBagrevand. Ashot akakunda Jahhafids kaviri muTaron neArsharunik. Mukuita uku haana kuwana Taron chete (iyo Jahhaf yakanga yatora kubva kune imwe Bagratid, Vasak) uye Arsharunik neShirak (iyo yaakanga atenga kare kubva kuKamsarakans), asiwo Ashotz, uye kumabvazuva kweTayk. Vanyadziswa, Jahhaf nemwanakomana wake Abd al-Malik vakapandukira pachena Caliphate nekutora guta guru reArmenia, Dvin, muna 813, uye vakabudirira kukomba gavhuna wecaliphal paBarda. Ashot akakunda hondo yevanhu zviuru zvishanu yakatumirwa kuzorwa naye naAbd al-Malik, achiuraya zviuru zvitatu zvavo, apo mukoma waAshot Shapuh akapinda munzvimbo dzakapoteredza Dvin. Apo Abd al-Malik akagadzirira kufamba ndokusangana naShapuh, vanhu vomunzvimbomo vakapanduka ndokumuuraya.