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Most recently, Ahmed Deedat's work has taken this approach. Maulana Abdul Haque wrote 5 volumes on this very topic in his series, "Muhammad in World Scriptures." One 968 page volume was devoted exclusively to Old and New Testament claims. To arrive at his conclusions, however, Haque did brutal violence to both Biblical and Quranic texts. Deedat is also guilty of this as well, though he didn't spend 968 pages doing so.
Nowhere in Jesus recording sayings in the New Testament do we find any reference to a coming prophet. His only reference is to Elijah. Unlike all other prophets before Him, Jesus taught His disciples to teach salvation in His name.
Quranic texts which tell us that Jesus foretold Mohammad have no supporting evidence in historical documentation or even church legend. There is a realm where the Jews were expecting another prophet other than Jesus and other than Elijah, but there is no Old Testament reference for such a prophecy, nor is the expectation put into a context which we can reference it by in the Bible. It was simply an erroneous expectation of the day. Not even the Church of Mohammad's day (with exception of those relying upon the Pseudepigrapha as an authority, the majority of churches then did not) expected such a prophet. It was only Mohammad's wife, Khadijah who made this claim from her family's erroneous understanding of the scriptures.
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