Although the Quran mentions that messengers in general were aided with miracles, it only details the specific miracles of a few messengers. Below is a description the specific miracles of the Prophets Musa and `Isa (upon them be peace) and how these miracles established the truthfulness of their claims to messengerhood.

1. The Prophet Musa (upon him be peace)

Quran 7:103–126 describes how the Prophet Musa (upon him be peace) tells the Pharaoh that Allah Most High is commanding him to release the Children of Israel from captivity. To establish his claim to speak on behalf of Allah Most High, he says that he comes with “clear signs” (bayyinat). The Pharaoh challenges him to bring forth his signs, and the Prophet Musa (upon him be peace) casts down his staff, which then turns into a snake, and draws out his hand from inside his shirt, which then comes out shining bright. The Pharaoh  and his retinue dismiss these miracles as magic and summon magicians from across the lands to replicate them. In a public contest against the magicians, the snake of the Prophet Musa (upon him be peace) consumes the snakes of the magicians, a feat they recognize to be beyond the capability of any magician, and the magicians, recognizing the miracle as divine confirmation of the Prophet Musa (upon him be peace), publicly proclaim their belief in him, sending the obstinate and humiliated Pharaoh into a fit of despotic rage.

2. The Prophet `Isa (upon him be peace)

Quran 19:30 mentions that the Prophet `Isa (upon him be peace) proclaimed as a newborn baby, “I am surely a servant of Allah. He has given me the Book and made me a prophet,” a clear sign (bayyina) to people of the truthfulness of his future claim to messengerhood. Later, in his adulthood, Allah Most High aided him with the miracle of bringing a clay bird to life, healing the blind, healing lepers, bringing the dead back to life, and telling people what they had done in the privacy of their homes. Quran 3:49 mentions these miracles and then quotes the Prophet `Isa (upon him be peace) as saying, “there is, indeed, in all of these, a great sign for you,” i.e. of the truthfulness of his claim to messengerhood.

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