The Qur’an includes accounts of earlier prophets, peoples, and religious laws. Such accounts have a historical dimension. Some of their contents correspond with earlier scriptural traditions while maintaining the Qur’an’s own corrective and guiding emphasis.
This aspect of iʿjāz concerns the presentation of that knowledge by the Prophet ﷺ without formal study of the earlier scriptural books. Reporting an event and constructing an argument about the source of that report are distinct analytical steps.
A sound qualification: individual details and historical claims require their own evidence. Not every loosely identified similarity constitutes conclusive independent historical verification.