وَقَالَ سَأَقْضِي حَاجَتِي ثُمَّ أَتَّقِي ۞ عَدُوِّي بِأَلْفٍ مِنْ وَرَائِي مُلْجَمِ
He said: I shall first accomplish my purpose, then guard myself against my enemy with a thousand bridled horsemen behind me.
The prefix sa- in sa-aqḍī marks a projected act. Here ḥājatī is not an ordinary need but the planned act of vengeance. “A thousand” displays a claim of overwhelming mounted support and can also function as a rhetorical expression of martial confidence, not independently verified military statistics.