Muslims expected the Prophet to work geographical miracles in Mecca

Evidence

The two fullest treatments were that in the reprobatio and that by Ricoldo. The former, even more than the work of San Pedro or Ricoldo, added convincing authority by its authentic use of sources. It gave greatest prominence to the Qur’anic text so often, but more vaguely, referred to: the Prophet’s insistence that he is called to announce and warn, but not to work miracles for which ‘certain Arabs’ (the Quraysh) had asked: to move the mountains from round Mecca, to make the soil fertile, or to raise up their ancestor Qusayy. — Norman Daniel, Islam and the West, 433