Although he died at a young age, he spent most of his life in the Lakhmid court in al-Hira.
The scholar Ibn Qutaybah (d. 889) reports that the people of their time believe al-Munakhal was the actual father of al-Nu'man III two sons by al-Mutajareda.
[2] According to Kitab al-Aghani of Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani (d. 967), al-Munakhal was one of the most handsome amongst the Arabs.
And he was responsible for the famous poet al-Nabigha (d. 604) departure from the Lakhmid court of al-Nu'man III.
[5] But, Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani narrates a different story in which al-Munakhal was imprisoned and killed by the order of the king Amr ibn Hind after news reached him about the involvement of his daughter Hind in an affair with her secret lover al-Munakhal.