In [this link](https://www.learn-japanese-adventure.com/japanese-verbs-state-
continuation-transitive.html), it is explained that _shimeru_ is a transitive
verb and so it can take the _-te aru_ ending but _shimaru_ is an intransitive
verb so it can take the _-te imasu_ ending.

However, in some grammar textbooks (such as [this one
here](https://books.google.co.in/books?id=CUXRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT364&lpg=PT364&dq=shimatte%20arimasu&source=bl&ots=00FCzjsJHl&sig=ACfU3U3UGlomX4Nxa6Z4J7KkNLq_dCfemg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-
kvGx1Y3oAhWrwjgGHambDl4Q6AEwB3oECAoQAQ)) I have seen _shimatte arimasu_ as
well:

> 使わないものはクローゼットにしまってあります。  
>  _Tsukawanai mono wa kurōzetto ni shimatte arimasu._
>
> I leave things that I do not use in my closet.

What is the difference?
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Difference between shimatte arimasu and shimete arimasu
(Using the example sentences from the links you provided.)

> 使わないものはクローゼットにしまってあります。  
>  _tsukawanai mono wa kurōzetto ni shimatte arimasu._
>
> I leave things that I do not use in my closet.

Here しまって is the _te_ -form of the transitive verb しまう "to put away / to
store".

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> 窓が[閉まって]{しまって}います。  
>  _mado ga shimatte imasu._
>
> The window was/is closed.

Here しまって is the _te_ -form of the intransitive verb 閉まる.
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The structure てある is used to indicate that somebody has of their own volition
performed a deliberate preparatory action **on an object**. Intransitive verbs
have no object to perform the action on.

Basically, てある describes states of being which have resulted in an object
having been acted on to completion, usually with a specific goal in mind for
that object. This is why the transitive verb must be used. Transitive verbs
are used to express people (or other agents) 'acting' on an object.
Intransitive verbs don't work with てある because there is no direct object onto
which the preparatory action can be performed. Put more simply, てある implies an
object and a person who did something to it. With intransitive verbs, there is
a person but no object.
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