Editing Christianity and Islam (section)

===Muhammad===
{{Main article|Muhammad in Islam|Muhammad's views on Christians}}
Muslims believe that Muhammad was a prophet who received revelations ([[Quran]]) by God through the angel [[Gabriel]] (''Jibril''),<ref name=Lambert>{{cite book|last1=Lambert|first1=Gray|title=The Leaders Are Coming!|date=2013|publisher=WestBow Press|isbn=9781449760137|page=287|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sV0mAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA287 }}</ref><ref name="Williams & Drew">{{cite book|author1=Roy H. Williams|author2=Michael R. Drew|title=Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future|date=2012|publisher=Vanguard Press|isbn=9781593157067|page=143|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mygRHh6p40kC&pg=PA143}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> gradually over a period of approximately 23 years, beginning on 22 December 609,<ref>
*''Chronology of Prophetic Events'', Fazlur Rehman Shaikh (2001) p. 50 Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd.
*[http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.arberry/17:105 Quran 17:105]</ref> when Muhammad was 40, and concluding in 632, the year of his death.<ref name="Britannica">{{cite encyclopedia|last=Nasr |first=Seyyed Hossein | author-link=Seyyed Hossein Nasr | title=Qurʾān |year=2007| encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica Online | access-date=24 September 2013|url=https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/487666/Quran}}</ref><ref name="LivRlgP3382"/><ref name="QuranC17V1062"/> Muslims regard the Quran as the most important miracle of Muhammad, a proof of his prophethood.<ref>{{cite book|last=Peters|first=F.E.|title=The Words and Will of God|year=2003|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=0-691-11461-7|pages=[https://archive.org/details/monotheistsjewsc01pete/page/12 12–13]|url=https://archive.org/details/monotheistsjewsc01pete/page/12}}</ref>

Muslims revere Muhammad as the embodiment of the perfect believer and take his actions and sayings as a model of ideal conduct. Unlike Jesus, who Christians believe was God's son, Muhammad was a mortal, albeit with extraordinary qualities. Today many Muslims believe that it is wrong to represent Muhammad, but this was not always the case. At various times and places pious Muslims represented Muhammad although they never worshiped these images.<ref>{{cite web|title=Muhammad|website=[[PBS]]|url=https://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/profilesmuhammed.html}}</ref>

During the lifetime of Muhammad, he had many [[Muhammad's views on Christians|interactions with Christians]]. One of the first Christians who met Muhammad was [[Waraqah ibn Nawfal]], a Christian priest of ancient Arabia. He was one of the first ''[[hanif]]s'' to believe in the prophecy of Muhammad.<ref>''Encyclopedia of Islam'', Online ed., "Waraqah bin. Nawfal".</ref> Muhammad also met the [[Christian community of Najran|Najrani Christians]] and [[Event of Mubahala|made peace with them]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Nickel|first=Gordon D.|title="We Will Make Peace With You": The Christians of Najrān in Muqātil's Tafsir|url=https://www.academia.edu/2105686|journal=Collectanea Christiana Orientalia|date=January 2006 |hdl=10396/4112|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Al-Mizan (Al I Imran) {{!}} PDF {{!}} Quran {{!}} Islam|url=https://www.scribd.com/document/36491521/Al-Mizan-al-i-Imran|access-date=2021-08-15|website=Scribd|language=en}}</ref> One of the earliest recorded comments of a Christian reaction to Muhammad can be dated to only a few years after Muhammad's death. As stories of the Arab prophet spread to [[Christianity in Syria|Christian Syria]], an old man who was asked about the "prophet who has appeared with the [[Saracens]]" responded: "He is false, for the prophets do not come armed with a sword."<ref>{{Cite journal| issn = 1047-5141| issue = Journal Article| pages = 19–| last = Wilken| first = Robert Louis| title = Christianity face to face with Islam| journal = First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life| date = 2009| url = http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=GPS&sw=w&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA191315729&asid=0c4dc9ace2eac67d6dc013701641207f}}{{subscription required|via=General OneFile}}</ref>