Al-Bukhari cites the report in his Ṣaḥīḥ with decisive wording and adduces it as proof. In the “Book of Beverages” (10/51/5590, Fatḥ) he says:

“Hisham b. ʿAmmar said: Sadaqah b. Khalid narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Yazīd b. Jābir narrated to us; ʿAṭiyyah b. Qays al-Kilābī narrated to us; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ghanm al-Ashʿarī narrated to me; he said: Abu ʿĀmir—or Abu Mālik—al-Ashʿarī—by Allah he did not lie to me—told me that he heard the Prophet ﷺ say…” and he then mentioned the ḥadīth.

Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah remarks in Al-Istiqāmah (1/294):

“With regard to the instruments of amusement, the narration that al-Bukhari records in his Ṣaḥīḥ as an assertive suspension, which meets his conditions, is sound.”

I say: This variety of suspension only looks like a taʿlīq. Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-ʿIrāqī, when documenting this ḥadīth in Al-Mughnī ʿan Ḥaml al-Asfār (2/271), made the same point. Most suspended reports are truly disconnected from the compiler, and they have several well-known forms; this case is not one of them, for Hisham b. ʿAmmar was among al-Bukhari’s own teachers whose narrations he accepted elsewhere in the Ṣaḥīḥ, as al-Ḥāfiẓ notes in Hisham’s biography in the introduction to Fatḥ al-Bārī. Moreover, al-Bukhari was not accused of tadlīs; therefore, his wording here—“he said”—carries the same force as “on the authority of,” “he narrated to me,” or “he told me,” contrary to the claim of Ibn ʿAbd al-Manān, who weakened authentic ḥadīths, as will be discussed later.

Al-ʿIrāqī’s observation is echoed by Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ in the Introduction to the Science of Ḥadīth (p. 72): “Its external form suggests a break, yet its ruling is not that of an interrupted chain, nor is it outside the …”