Muslims believe that Jesus (whom they call Issa) received a message, which they call injeel, or Gospel. Jesus taught this message. However somehow this message was lost. As to where the teachings of Jesus in the New Testament come from, there is no good answer for this.
Muslims will sometimes make reference to the apocryphal gospels, such as the Gospel according to Barnabas to support their case for the original injeel.
However, Muslim Dawa-ists are extremely resourceful and perform extensive research, and
you can therefore be sure that if there were any apocryphal books that resembled or gave support to Issa's injeel, without discrediting their larger case, they would have it paraded it around everywhere long ago.
So the reality is that they only make references in passing to these apocryphal books without going into detail.
And the bottom line is that Muslims are in the same situation as Christians; we can accept them or reject them. Muslims reject these books and accept the Quran (for some reason).
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