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The imp companion runs off your total level, not off any sort of combination despite the odd way it's worded. The imp will be equal to its master in level unless some unusual circumstances arise to change this fact. Your player is simply trying to interpret the rules in a way that, quite frankly, you'd need to be either intentionally obtuse or carrying around some impressive visual impairment to see.
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Regrettably the rules as written are rather poorly worded so no, there's no real evidence besides the obvious meaning. As GM, you more than have the authority to simply tell him that is how it'll be at your table; he can take it or leave it. Unfortunately, it does sound as if that might be your best way to approach it.
Even I have to admit that the current writing of the rules makes it appear as if they had intended for the imp to have more hit dice than character does levels, but both common sense and previously established standards tell us this is not so.
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How did he meet the requirements at that level? If he used a scroll, where/how did he get it? He is a cleric, right? Unless one of the Archdevils or Asmodeus are his patron, I would disallow him to take diabolist if he is a cleric. For a wizard it's no problem, but clerics operate on faith and if you start dealing with devils while worshipping a non-devil related patron, you will find that your god no longer gives you spells since as a diablolist you have started to align your beliefs with them. Gods tend to be jealous when it comes to worship. Further, if the party is mostly good, having a diabolist that doesn't have a good reason to traffic with devils is going to create a lot of party tension. Take it from someone who has played a diabolist in such a situation.
Edited to better explain my position.
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I am not the GM of this game, I am just concerned about having to put up with a combat based cleric with an overpowered imp.
As far as the scroll, the GM hesitantly allowed him to buy it.
The GM messed up with that call. At the minimum, he should have waited until he was 7th before allowing him to take the class.
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8th actually. You have to meet the requirements of a PrC the level before you take it. You have to be a 7th level caster before you can take an Imp with the Improved Familliar feat.The GM messed up with that call. At the minimum, he should have waited until he was 7th before allowing him to take the class.I am not the GM of this game, I am just concerned about having to put up with a combat based cleric with an overpowered imp.
As far as the scroll, the GM hesitantly allowed him to buy it.
He is getting the imp from Diabolist as a companion, not as a familiar. Also, the lowest level a cleric can cast the lesser planar ally spell without a scroll, is 7th. So, yes, it would seem 8th is the minimum level, assuming no scroll.
Who is this cleric's patron, by the way?
I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere that a familiar or animal companion cannot ever have more HD than its master