فَقُلْتُ لِمِحْرَزٍ لَمَّا الْتَقَيْنَا
When we met, I said to Miḥraz.
The book discusses this verse in the setting of mockery and exposing weakness in combat. Its continuation, تَنَكَّبْ لَا يَقْطُرْكَ الزِّحَامُ, conveys a derisive suggestion that the addressee move aside from the crush of battle.
Like the spear example, the rhetorical posture is inferred from outward behavior rather than from an explicitly recorded denial. However, the tones differ: ridicule and mockery are central here. One should not interpret every emphatic or pointed expression as a neutral statement of fact.