The Banu Ilyas (Persian: بنو الیاس) or Ilyasids were an Iranian dynasty of Sogdian[1] origin which ruled Kerman from 932 until 968.

Despite Samanid and later Buyid attempts to expel him from Kerman, he succeeded in maintaining his rule there for over thirty years.

Ilyasa b. Muhammad quickly angered the neighboring Buyids under 'Adud al-Daula by arguing over some territory on the border of Kerman and Fars.

Gorgir moved to stop them, and in the ensuing battle between Jiroft and Bam, Sulaiman, two of Ilyasa's sons, Bakr and al-Husain, and a large portion of the Khurasanian troops were killed.

Al-Husain, learning of a rebellion in Kerman, traveled from Khurasan and took control of part of the rebelling forces.