Nitrobenzene should react directly with chlorosulfonic acid to give you 3-nitrobenzenesulfonyl chloride, which you can then selectively reduce with triphenylphosphine to give the desired aryl thiol.

Here are a few references:

Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 12(6), 1413-1423; 2004

Synthesis, (19), 3211-3213; 2009

For your synthesis pls check Tetrahedron Letters, 23, p. 4701, 1982