Ibn al-Jawzī included the hadith in al-Mawḍūʿāt (p. 579 of al-Laʾālī, Indian edition), through al-ʿUqaylī’s narration, with his chain from al-ʿAṭṭār, with this wording. I did not find it in al-ʿAṭṭār’s biographical entry in al-ʿUqaylī’s al-Ḍuʿafāʾ. He also cited Ibn ʿAdī’s narration in al-Kāmil (154/2), from Sulaymān ibn Arqam, from Ibn Sīrīn, from Abū Hurayrah, attributed to the Prophet, in similar terms. Ibn al-Jawzī said: “Sulaymān ibn Arqam is abandoned, as is Saʿīd ibn Salām.”

Al-Suyūṭī criticized this, saying: “I say: The hadith is good and authentic, and it has many chains and corroborating reports …” He then mentioned the hadith of Jābir, in whose chain Abū al-Zubayr narrates with an ambiguous ‘from.’ Al-Muʿāfā ibn Zakariyyā also transmitted it in A Section of His Hadiths (1/2), and all its narrators are trustworthy. He also attributed it to al-Ḥārith in his Musnad and to al-Daylamī; but both their chains contain someone I do not know, in addition to the ambiguous transmission.

He also mentioned al-Bayhaqī’s narration in Shuʿab al-Īmān, through his chain from Abū Qatādah, attributed to the Prophet, in similar terms, but without the phrase, “For they will be resurrected …”; it does, however, include their visiting one another. Its chain contains Salm ibn Ibrāhīm al-Warrāq, whom Ibn Maʿīn declared a liar, from ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār. In al-Taqrīb, al-Ḥāfiẓ said: “Truthful, but prone to error. His narrations from Yaḥyā ibn Abī Kathīr are inconsistent, and he had no book.”

He then mentioned several supporting reports halted at the Companions. Thus, in my view, the hadith is good through the combined strength of these chains. And Allah knows best.

I then found a strong corroborating narrator for al-Warrāq. Ibn al-Sammāk said in His Hadiths (2/95/2): “ʿAbd al-Malik narrated to us: Ismāʿīl ibn Sinān Abū ʿUbaydah al-ʿAṣfarī narrated to us: ʿIkrimah ibn ʿAmmār narrated to us, saying: Hishām ibn Ḥassān narrated to us from Muḥammad ibn Sīrīn, from Abū Qatādah, attributed to the Prophet, with this wording.”

Abū ʿAmr ibn Mandah likewise transmitted it in al-Muntakhab min al-Fawāʾid (254/1), from Abū Qilābah al-Raqāshī, who said: Ismāʿīl ibn Sinān Abū ʿUbaydah al-ʿAṣfarī narrated to us with it.

I say: This is a good chain for supporting and corroborating evidence. Its narrators are narrators used by Muslim, apart from al-ʿAṣfarī—regarding whom Abū Ḥātim said, “There is nothing objectionable in his hadith”—and Abū Qilābah, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad al-Raqāshī, concerning whom al-Ḥāfiẓ said: