He was born in Manūf on 11 June 1443 (14 Rabīʿi 847 in the Islamic calendar).
He studied at Cairo before returning to Manūf to serve as a ḳāḍī (judge).
[1] Al-Manūfī was primarily a writer of local and regional history.
Among his works are Kitāb al-Fayḍ al-madīd fī akhbār al-Nīl al-sadīd, a tract on the Nile and its source; Kitāb al-Badr al-ṭāliʿ min al-Ḍawʾ al-lāmiʿ, an abridged version of Shams al-Dīn al-Sakhāwī's treatise The Light that Shines on the People of the Ninth Century; and Kitāb al-Naṣīḥa bi-mā abdathu ʾl-qarīḥa.
[1] He had access to the now lost work of the 10th-century writer Ibn Sulaym al-Aswānī on Nubia.