Every verse in Quran was revealed on the Prophet Muhammad (SAWA) and he conveyed it exactly as it was revealed. The Prophet is infallible and he is the most truthful person. Whatever he conveyed was from Allah with out any doubt.
Jesus was never killed nor crucified by his enemies who did try to commit that crimes, but they failed because Allah (SWT) made the person who informed the enemies of Jesus to catch and kill him, Allah made him look like Jesus in shape, and saved Jesus and raised him to the sky. The enemies of Jesus killed and crucified that person (the informer) not Jesus.
This fact does not harm the validity of the real teachings of Christianity which in fact never said that Jesus was crucified, but it does invalidate the false claims of the enemies of Jesus.
Quran states that the enemies of Jesus attempted to kill and crucify him but they could not do so, as they caught and killed and crucified some one else who looked like him.( 4: 157).
Wassalam.
Thank you for your question. The pre-eternal existence of the reality of the Prophet (saw) is understood from the traditions concerning the first creations that God created as being the Prophet (saw) and the Imams (as) (see al-Kafi (2) 443 for example). The rational theorization of what this means is derived from trying to understand how a limited world comes about from an unlimited Creator without that world being something completely separate from Him, as that would result in His limitation. To properly get to grasp with these kinds of questions and their theories a background in philosophy and theoretical mysticism is needed, but I hope that goes some way to answer the first part of your question.
As for the second part of your question, the issue of Jesus (as) being born in the material world before the birth of the Prophet (saw) is different from the ontological precedence of the reality of the Prophet (saw) over all of creation. The reality of the Prophet (saw) is not the material manifestation of the Prophet (saw), but it is his ontological reality as the first creation of God and the most unlimited of His creation. It is this reality that Jesus (as) too was a manifestation of.
Thank you for your question. The criteria to understand this statement is not the amount of Christians or Muslims as that would mean that another shared prophet, such as Ibrahim (as) would be the most beloved as Jews, Christians and Muslims all love prophet Ibrahim (as) for example. Rather, the Prophet (saw) being the most beloved creation can be understood in a couple of ways:
1) He (saw) is the most beloved creature to God, and since God has the greatest capacity to love, the Prophet (saw) is the most beloved creature of all time.
2) The pre-eternal reality of the Prophet (saw) is the source of existence of all that is good and so the whole of creation from its beginning to its end loves the Prophet (saw) including Jesus (as), whose very goodness and belovedness is derived from the belovedness of the Prophet (saw).
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