Grading: The hadith is sahih, and the narrators of this chain are acceptable (la ba'sa bihim).
Technical note / Defect ('illah): Joining Sufyan al-Thawri to Ibn Jurayj (Abd al-Malik bin Abd al-Aziz al-Makki) in this chain is an error (wahm), because it gives the impression that his narration is connected (mawsul) like Ibn Jurayj's connected narration, whereas what is established from Sufyan al-Thawri is the mursal form, as has passed. The error here is either from Abu Humah (Muhammad bin Yusuf al-Zabidi), of whom Ibn Hibban said in "al-Thiqat" (9/104): He sometimes erred and narrated unusual reports; or from his shaykh Abu Qurrah (Musa bin Tariq al-Zabidi), who narrates unusual reports, as Ibn Hibban also said in "al-Thiqat" (9/159); or it may be from al-Hasan bin Ali bin Ziyad (al-Surri al-Razi), about whom no criticism or commendation (jarh or ta'dil) has been reported, although a group of trustworthy hafiz scholars narrated from him.

Reference / Source: Ahmad (38/22934) narrated it from Muhammad bin Bakr al-Bursani, from Ibn Jurayj: Ja'far bin Muhammad informed me, with this chain.

Reference / Source: Abd al-Razzaq narrated it in "al-Musannaf" (3995), and al-Bayhaqi in his "al-Sunan al-Kubra" (2/482) through the route of al-Husayn bin Hafs al-Hamdani. Both of them (Abd al-Razzaq and al-Husayn bin Hafs) narrate it from Sufyan al-Thawri, from Ja'far bin Muhammad, from his father, as "mursal".