R. Sharabi's life was embellished by legends even from his youth, and in Erez Israel he was famous as a saint and miracle worker. Popular tradition links his departure from Yemen with a miracle that occurred after a rich Muslim woman tried to seduce him. In Bet El he worked as a servant and hid his learning from others; only miraculously was his deep knowledge of Kabbalah discovered and he became a member of the kabbalistic circle. According to legend, the prophet Elijah appeared to him and he was an incarnation of Ari z'l. After his death, his name became greatly revered among the Jews of Jerusalem and among the kabbalists of Bet El. His grandson, R. Solomon Moses Hai Gagin, wrote a poem of praise on his expertise in Ez Hayyim and in Shemonah She'arim of R. Hayyim Vital. The members of Bet El used to prostrate themselves on his grave on the Mount of Olives on the commemoration of his death. His signature was Shalom Mizrahi di-Ydi'a Sharabi and his titles Ha-Reshash or Ha-Shemesh (both are Hebrew acronyms of Shalom Mizrahi Sharabi).

Sharabi's books are on Ari z'l's Kabbalah. Particularly famous is his prayer book Nehar Shalom (this lot) which includes in detail the secrets and mystical meditations on prayers and on mitzvot for the entire year according to Ari z'l's Kabbalah. It became popular in Erez Israel and North Africa after his death. His contemporary, H. J. D. Azulai, attested that Sharabi studied the Ari z'l's teachings in depth and presented the mystical meditations of Ari z'l clearly and correctly. He annotated corruptions in the texts and elucidated lacunae and contradictions. His glosses and explanations of Ari z'l's writings are an important source for their understanding.

The missing part of the work was published later in an edition of Ez Hayyim (1866–67; 1910). It was published in Jerusalem in two editions (1911–12; 1916). Parts of the prayer book were published under different titles and in many editions from 1911. He also wrote Rehovot ha-Nahar, a commentary on Ari z'l's principles (Salonika, 1806); and Emet ve-Shalom, glosses to R. Hayyim Vital's Ez Hayyim (Salonika, 1806), later published in Ez Hayyim (Salonika, 1842; Jerusalem, 1866–67).

דף א-לא: ספר אמת ושלום. כולל גם: עב ועוד מט שאלות בקבלה (דף כד-לא) שהמחבר נשאל עליהן. התשובות לא נדפסו. דף לא,ב-צה,א: ספר נהר שלום. דף צה,ב-קכה: הקדמת רחובות הנהר. כולל גם: דרושים בקבלה (הפותחים: דרוש ... בענין הדעת. אמר חיים ויטאל הנני מחבר דרוש ...) עם הערות אחדות מהמחבר (דף קטו,ב-קכב,א). "רחובות הנהר" נדפס, לראשונה, בתוך ספר שמן זית זך, שאלוניקי תקל"ט, להלן, מס' . כאן - בהוספות. ולאחר מכן, גם בשינויים, בתוך: ספרו נהר שלום, ירושלם תרכ"ז.