The story
His mother is the only woman named in the Qur'an, and an entire surah carries her name. To Maryam, the devoted of the sanctuary, the angel came in perfect human form with a sentence that rearranged nature: a pure boy, without a father. 'How?' she asked, and received the answer that had once made Sarah laugh and Zakariyya tremble: 'It is easy for Me' (19:21). The Qur'an sets his creation beside Adam's: dust, then 'Be', and he was (3:59).
She withdrew, and the pains drove her to the trunk of a palm tree, where heaven's care arrived as practical as a midwife: do not grieve, a stream at your feet, shake the trunk for fresh ripe dates (19:24-26). When she carried the child back to a city sharpening its tongues, her defense was the baby himself. From the cradle he spoke the creed of his whole life: 'Indeed, I am the servant of Allah. He has given me the Book and made me a prophet' (19:30). Servant first, before miracle, before mission.
Grown, he confirmed the Torah, lightened burdens, and worked wonders the Qur'an lists with a refrain attached like a seal: by Allah's leave. Clay birds breathed into life, the blind and the leper healed, the dead raised, each 'bi idhnillah' (3:49), power on loan, never owned. His disciples asked for a table from heaven and were given it with a warning attached (5:112-115); his people split between deniers and those who worshipped him, the two errors he was sent between.
The Qur'an is precise about his end: 'they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him, but it was made to appear so to them... rather, Allah raised him to Himself' (4:157-158). He is alive, and his return is 'knowledge of the Hour' (43:61). On the Last Day he will disown every claim of divinity made in his name in one of scripture's most tender dialogues: 'I said to them only what You commanded me: worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord' (5:117). The final Prophet ﷺ called him his closest brother: one mother-faith, different mothers, no prophet between the two of them.