Peace all,
The Gospels of the Infancy were two books that were written about 150+ AD--140+ years after Jesus Christ's childhood!! These were just fabricated books written to appease a curious ancient Christian community. Notice the Gospels are silent on Christ's early life, people were just aching to know what the Lord Jesus was doing as a child. Certainly this attracted alot of story tellers! The books were to heretical to be included into the official Christian cannon. Nonetheless, they were popular books in places like Arabia. I bet Waraqa was familiar with these stories, and he told them to Muhammed.
What's ironic is the existence of an Arabic Infancy Gospel.
http://wesley.nnu.edu/noncanon/gospels/infarab.htm
[5.110] When Allah will say: O Isa son of Marium! Remember My favor on you and on your mother, when I strengthened you I with the holy Spirit, you spoke to the people in the cradle and I when of old age, and when I taught you the Book and the wisdom and the Taurat and the Injeel; and when you determined out of clay a thing like the form of a bird by My permission, then you breathed into it and it became a bird by My permission, and you healed the blind and the leprous by My permission; and when you brought forth the dead by My permission; and when I withheld the children of Israel from you when you came to them with clear arguments, but those who disbelieved among them said: This is nothing but clear enchantment"
And the Arabic Infancy Gospel says:
1. We find (1) what follows in the book of Joseph the high priest, who lived in the time of Christ. Some say that he is Caiaphas. (2) He has said that Jesus spoke, and, indeed, when he was lying in His cradle said to Mary His mother: I am Jesus, the Son of God, the Logos, whom thou hast brought forth, as the Angel Gabriel announced to thee; and my Father has sent me for the salvation of the world.
46. Again, on another day, the Lord Jesus was with the boys at a stream of water, and they had again made little fish-ponds. And the Lord Jesus had made twelve sparrows, and had arranged them round His fish-pond, three on each side. And it was the Sabbath-day. Wherefore a Jew, the son of Hanan, coming up, and seeing them thus engaged, said in anger and great indignation: Do you make figures of clay on the Sabbath-day? And he ran quickly, and destroyed their fish-ponds. But when the Lord Jesus clapped His hands over the sparrows which He had made, they flew away chirping. Then the son of Hanan came up to the fish-pond of Jesus also, and kicked it with his shoes, and the water of it vanished away. And the Lord Jesus said to him: As that water has vanished away, so thy life shall likewise vanish away. And immediately that boy dried up.
Did Allah really give permission for little Isa to make birds from clay and speak from a cradle--when such things never happened? How can the Quran be the absolute word of Allah with these borrowed myths?
We can clearly see that Muhammed took well known Arabian stories from the Arabic Infancy Gospel when he composed the Quran.
2 Peter 1:16
We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.