Beliefs and actions of Zoroastrians in Sunni traditions with emphasis on prophetic hadiths

The word Magus in Islamic sources refers to Zoroastrians. This word is used in the Holy Quran, hadith sources of Fariqin and many historical documents. This research, with a descriptive-analytical method, deals with the extraction and analysis of Magi in Sunni hadith sources. The text is based on hadiths that were narrated from the Prophet of Islam (PBUH). Among the other infallibles (a.s.), only one hadith from Amir al-Mu'minin Ali (a.s.) and two hadiths from Imam Sadiq (a.s.) have been narrated. The total of hadiths includes various topics, which are collected under six general and three partial titles. Some narrations refer to religious issues, some refer to the customs of Magi, and most of them refer to jurisprudence of Magi. The collected hadiths refer to Zoroastrians, and they do not mention Zoroastrian and his religion. Among the hadith subjects, the titles of shaving the beard and raising the mustache, chess, qadrieh and dualism had the possibility of matching with the themes of Zoroastrian sources, and this comparison was made. Regarding the content of the hadith about shaving the beard and raising the mustache of the Magi, it can be said that no evidence was found in the Zoroastrian sources to strengthen the content of this hadith, although there are some historical documents confirming this action of the Magi.