Some reports describe two pans and a tongue and illustrate reward and loss through the heaviness or lightness of deeds. Not every detail in the various reports has the same degree of evidentiary certainty; each feature should not automatically become a separate definitive creedal requirement.
Core affirmation: the weighing of deeds and the manifestation of justice.
Reported detail: accounts of the balance’s construction, which require separate assessment of transmission and meaning.
Faith in the unseen requires proportioning certainty to evidence rather than conflating the two levels.