How do the revenge episode and the final denials relate?

Zuhayr ibn Abī Sulmā: Ḥuṣayn ibn Ḍamḍam, Revenge and the Cost of Bloodshed (Verses 33–42)

• Both are only travel narrative
• The names are merely rhymes
• The beginning shows vengeance; the end concerns attribution of blood-guilt
• The ending cancels the earlier event