Ja'far us Sadiq Imaduddin (Arabic: جـعفـرُ ٱلصَّـادِق عِمـادُ ٱلدِّيـن) or Jafar us Sadiq Mufaddal Saifuddin, is the eldest son of Mufaddal Saifuddin,[1][2] the current incumbent of the office of the 53rd Dawoodi Bohra Da'i al-Mutlaq,[3] and the grandson of Mohammed Burhanuddin.
Imaduddin is a direct descendant of the Islamic Prophet Mohammed,[9] who was himself a descendant of the Prophet Abraham, through an unbroken chain of noble and august ancestry.
Imaduddin's ancestors include Mir Mahamad Ali, Fakhr al-Din Shaheed, Abd al-Qadir Hakimuddin, Khanji Pheer and Syedi Lukman who were direct descendants of Ja'far al-Sadiq.
He is a Senior Fellow at the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought[10] and is also a signatory of the Amman Message, which is a declaration calling for tolerance and unity in the Muslim world that was issued on 9 November 2004 (27th of Ramadan 1425 Hijri) by Abdullah II of Jordan.
[11] He was appointed one of the rectors of Aljamea-tus-Saifiyah (Arabic: امير الجامعة) on 27 Rajab 1436H corresponding to 15 May 2015 by Mufaddal Saifuddin.