– al-Ṭarīq al-Wusṭā (the middle route): the road that heads straight to the stone-pillars (jamarāt).

– al-Jamrah (sing.; pl. jimar): in the Arabs’ idiom the word jimar denotes small stones; for this reason the three stone-pillars at Minā are called jimar. The ḥadīth concerning them will be discussed later, if Allah so wills.

– Ḥaṣā al-Khadhf (pebbles used for flicking): the term is pronounced with a khāʾ followed by a quiescent dhāl and then a bāʾ. Each pebble should be about the size of a broad bean or a fava bean.
al-khadhf is the act of propelling a pebble with the fingers by placing it between the two index fingers and flicking it. Ibn al-Athīr says: the word is used for both hurling and striking.

– Naḥr: slaughtering by stabbing with a knife or spear into the hollow between the base of the neck and the chest, a method reserved exclusively for camels.

– “Then he poured forth (fa-afāḍa) to the House”: al-Zamakhsharī notes in al-Fāʾiq that the root idea of ifāḍah is “pouring,” and by extension “moving off in large numbers,” likened to the flow of abundant water. Here it means that he left Minā for the Sacred Kaʿbah to perform the ṭawāf of ifāḍah.

Benefits drawn from the ḥadīth
Imām al-Nawawī, in his commentary on Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, writes: “The ḥadīth of Jābir is a tremendous narration containing a wealth of benefits and precious foundational principles. It is exclusive to Muslim; al-Bukhārī did not record it in his Ṣaḥīḥ, while Abū Dāwūd transmitted it with the same wording as Muslim. Al-Qāḍī said: Scholars have discussed at length the jurisprudence it yields. Ibn al-Munḏir even authored a large treatise on it, deriving from it more than one hundred and fifty legal issues; and had he pursued the matter further, that number could easily have been increased by a similar amount.” End quote.

The commentator on Bulūgh al-Marām adds: “Be aware that the basic rule regarding everything proven to have been done by the Messenger of Allah ﷺ during his pilgrimage is that it is obligatory, for two reasons:
First, his actions in the ḥajj serve to elucidate the pilgrimage that Allah has enjoined, and actions undertaken as a clarification of an obligation themselves carry obligatory force.”