Muhammad worked no miracle. That is his own testimony in the Koran. Lings shows him involved often in the miraculous, based on hadith literature. In a case as important as this, I part company with Lings and offer the official Koranic teaching.

Muhammad is criticized about being so spiritually impotent often in the Koran. People who flock to him want to know why, if he is a prophet of God, he works no miracle. They demand an angelic visit! His response in at least a couple of places is that the words they are hearing, the Koran, are the miracle. Look at the style, look at the substance, the content, and know that God is doing a miracle by the very fact that I am speaking so eloquently, words that are not even mine.

And as for the angel they requested, he kept insisting that Gabriel was the source of his revelations.

To me, that is a weak defense:

The people: "Show me a miracle."

Muhammad: "Listen to my words."

The people: "Prove your words with a miracle."

Muhammad: "No, the words themselves, just the words!"

I am not quoting the Koran, just trying to get inside what is being said. It seems that in Islam it is the "Word" made into a book that is important, whereas in Christ it is the [Living] Word made flesh.

Now, Jesus began with a similar statement in John 14. I paraphrase. "Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father in Me? These words I speak are not from Me, but from the Father in Me!"

But then Jesus took it a step farther: "Believe Me, that I am in the Father [just because I say it], or else believe me for the very works' sake."

"Except you see signs and wonders, you will not believe," said Jesus. Knowing that, He showed them signs and wonders constantly. I need not catalogue this list, for it is well known throughout the world. Jesus was a miracle worker. God gave Him this unprecedented power, says John, so that "you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name."