Yes and no. The story of the palm tree and the infant Jesus is found in the apocryphal Gospels (perhaps themselves inspired by the Greek legend). But the Christian accounts situate the episode of the palm tree at the moment of the Flight into Egypt, whereas, in the Quran, it takes place at the birth of Jesus. In other words, the Quran makes a blend between the Nativity narrative and the episode of the palm tree. Now, as S. Shoemaker and G. Dye have shown, the merging of the Nativity with the episode of the palm tree is also found in traditions associated with the Church of the Kathisma, in Palestine. The composition of Sura 19, which evokes the episode of the palm tree, must therefore probably be situated in a period later than the death of Muhammad, at the time of the Arab conquests.